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| 122232874 | Mansa Musa | Lord of African empire of Mali, distributed gold as he journeyed to Mecca | 0 | |
| 122232875 | Stateless societies | African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking concentration of political power and authority | 1 | |
| 122232876 | African animistic religion | belief in the power of natural forces ,personified as spirits or gods and the role of ritual and worship. ex. dancing, drumming, divination and sacrifice | 2 | |
| 122232877 | Ifriqiya | Roman name for Africa, arabic for eastern north africa | 3 | |
| 122232878 | Maghrib | arabic for western north Africa | 4 | |
| 122232879 | When were the arab and berber armies stopped | in 732, in Poitiers France by Charles Martel | 5 | |
| 122232880 | Berbers | people of the dessert in Africa | 6 | |
| 122232881 | Almoravids | Puritanical reformist followers that launches a holy war, jihad against the African kingdoms in the savannah, towards Spain.(more violent) | 7 | |
| 122232882 | Almohadis | Following the same pattern a few years later.(less violent) | 8 | |
| 122232883 | Bantu | Language of western Africa | 9 | |
| 122232884 | Swahili | Language of eastern Africa | 10 | |
| 122232885 | Copts | Christians of Egypt | 11 | |
| 122232886 | Nubia | Ancient land of Kush | 12 | |
| 122232887 | Axum | important African Christian outpost,language Geez | 13 | |
| 122232888 | Sahel | The extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the sahara; a point of exchange between the forests to the south and northern africa | 14 | |
| 122232889 | Sudanic States | Kingdoms that developed during the height of Ghana's power in the region, based at the Takrur on the Senegal river to the west and Gao on the Niger river to the east , included Mali and Songhay | 15 | |
| 122232890 | Mali | An empire between the Senegal and Niger rivers, creation of the Malinke people, broke away from the control of Ghana in the 13th century. The religion was Islam | 16 | |
| 122232891 | juula | Manlike merchants, formed small partnerships and groups to carry out trade throughout the area, spread throughout west africa | 17 | |
| 122232892 | Sundiata | A brilliant leader whose exploits were celebrated through oral tradition. "Lion Prince" a member of the Keita clan, created a unified state that became the Mali empire | 18 | |
| 122232893 | Timbuktu | Port city of Mali, located right off the flood plain on the great bend in the Niger river, included a library and a university | 19 | |
| 122232894 | Songhay | Successor state to Mali, dominated middle of the Niger valley;formed an independent kingdom under a Berber dynasty; capital Gao: reached imperial status under Sunni Ali | 20 | |
| 122232895 | Muhammad the Great | Extended the boundaries of Songhay empire; Islamic ruler of the mid. 16th century | 21 | |
| 122232896 | Sharia | Islamic law; defined among other things the patrilineal nature of Islamic inheritance | 22 | |
| 122232897 | Nok | Culture featuring highly developed art style that flourished between 500 B.C.E. and 200 C.e> in the forests of central Nigeria | 23 | |
| 122232898 | Yoruba states | city-states that developed in Northern Nigeria ilf-ilf had similar artistic style to Nok. Agriculture societies supported by the peasantry and dominated by royal families and aristocracy | 24 | |
| 122232899 | Benin | Powerful city-state extended from Niger river to modern day coast of Lagos. Rulers lived in royal compounds surrounded by entourage | 25 | |
| 122232900 | Kongo | Kingdom based on agriculture, formed on lower Congo river. Capital at Mbanza Kongo, ruled by hereditary hierarchy | 26 | |
| 122232901 | Great Zimbabwe | Bantu confederation of Shona- speaking people. Had royal courts built of stone; crated centralized state, title of kings was Mwene Mutapa | 27 |
