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| 98780892 | stateless societies | African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation | 0 | |
| 98780893 | ifriqiya | Arabic term for eastern north Africa | 1 | |
| 98780894 | Maghrib | Arabic term for western north Africa | 2 | |
| 98780895 | Almohadis | A reformist movement among the Islamic Berbers of northern Africa | 3 | |
| 98780896 | juula | Malinke merchants; formed small partnerships to carry out trade throughout mali empire | 4 | |
| 98780897 | Sundiata | member of the keita clan; founder of the Mali empire | 5 | |
| 98780898 | griots | Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the mali empire | 6 | |
| 98780899 | Ibn Batuta | Arab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records | 7 | |
| 98780900 | Timbuktu | Port city of Mali; 50,000 people | 8 | |
| 98780901 | songhay | Successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of Niger Valley | 9 | |
| 98780902 | Muhammad the Great | Extended the boundaries of the Songhay Empire; Islamic ruler of the mid-16th century | 10 | |
| 98780903 | Hausa | People from northern Nigeria | 11 | |
| 98780904 | Sharia | Islamic law; defined among other things the partilineal nature of the Islamic inheritance | 12 | |
| 98780905 | zanj | Arabic term for the east African coast | 13 | |
| 98780906 | demography | study of population | 14 | |
| 98780907 | demographic transition | change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates | 15 | |
| 98780908 | benin | Powerful city state which came into contact with the Portuguese in 1485 but remained relatively free of European influence | 16 | |
| 98781504 | Kongo | Kingdom, based on agriculture, formed on lower Congo river | 17 | |
| 98781505 | great zimbabwe | a powerful southeast African city | 18 |
