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| 298309763 | Stateless Societies | societies that were organized around kingship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority we normally associated with the state. | 0 | |
| 298309764 | Ifriqiya | the name that the Arabs originally used for the eastern north Africa. | 1 | |
| 298309765 | Maghrib | the name Arabs used for the lands in west Africa. | 2 | |
| 298309766 | Almohadis | a reformist group who launched a jihad on against the African kingdoms of the savanna and west into Spain, just as the Almoravids before them had done. This was essential to the penetration of Islam into sub-Saharan Africa. | 3 | |
| 298309767 | Juula | Malinke merchants who formed small partnerships and groups to carry trade throughout the area. They spread through much of west Africa. | 4 | |
| 298309768 | Sundiata | "Lion Prince;" the malinke expansion is credited to this brilliant leader whose accomplishments were celebrated in a great oral tradition. | 5 | |
| 298309769 | Griots | professional oral historians who also served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings. | 6 | |
| 298309770 | Ibn Batuta | he was an Arab traveler, who wrote of the strict outlook Africans had of injustice, and the fact that they would not pardon it. | 7 | |
| 298309771 | Timbuktu | a city of commercial exchange that lay just off the flood plain of the great bend of the Niger River. | 8 | |
| 298309772 | Songhay | these people dominated the middle areas of the Niger valleys. It began to form in the 7th century. Gao, their capital, was established in 1010, and the empire was forged under the leadership of Sunni Ali (1464-1492). | 9 | |
| 298309773 | Muhammad the Great | one of the line of Muslim rulers that succeeded Sunni Ali and extended the boundaries of the Sounghay Empire to central Sudan by the mid-16th century. | 10 | |
| 298309774 | Hausa | state made up of peoples from northern Nigeria which was based on cities like Kano and Katsina. This state combined pagan and Muslim traditions. | 11 | |
| 298309775 | Sharia | Islamic law | 12 | |
| 298309776 | Zenj | Arabic word for the East African coast. | 13 | |
| 298309777 | Bernin | a large city-state formed sometime in the 14th century. Its control extended from the Niger River to the coast near modern Lagos, under their ruler Ewuare the Great (r. 1440-1473). | 14 | |
| 298309778 | Kongo | a kingdom that formed on the lower Congo River, and flourished by the late 15th century. | 15 | |
| 298309779 | Great Zimbabwe | largest of all stone constructed cities that housed kings. It was the center of the kingdom and had religious connections with the "bird of god," the eagle. | 16 |
