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5648661434	Bantu Migrations - Interactions Pg. 484	Bantu speaking peoples undertook small-scale migrations and settled to build small communities and societies throughout Africa; helped spread agriculture in Africa	0
5648663954	Sundiata - Political Pg.491	Sundiata Keita was a puissant prince and founder of the Mali Empire. The famous Malian ruler Mansa Musa who made a pilgrimage to Mecca was his grandnephew.	1
5648663955	Gold-Salt Trade - Economic Pg.488	Camel caravans from North Africa carried bars of salt as well as cloth, tobacco, and metal tools across the Sahara to trading centers like Djenne and Timbuktu on the Niger River. Some items for which the salt was traded include gold, ivory, slaves, skins, kola nuts, pepper, and sugar	2
5648664590	Stateless Society - Political Pg.485	a group of independent villages organized into clans and led by a local ruler or clan head without any central government	3
5648664591	Mansa Musa - Culture, Political Pg.491	Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world; wealthiest man in history	4
5648664592	Ibn Battuta - Culture Pg.495	a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler. He is known for his traveling and going on excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of almost thirty years	5
5648665254	Kinship Groups - Social Pg.496	extended families and clans that served as the main foundation of social and economic organization in small-scale agricultural societies; male heads of families jointly governed the village and organized the work of their own groups	6
5648665255	Creator God - Culture Pg.500	extended families and clans that served as the main foundation of social and economic organization in small-scale agricultural societies; male heads of families jointly governed the village and organized the work of their own groups	7
5648665960	Age Groups - Social Pg.498	African social distinctions determined by when you were born. People belonging to a certain group had certain expectations. The groups established ties transcending family or clan loyalties	8
5648665961	Zimbabwe - Poltical Pg.494	A country of southern Africa. Various Bantu peoples migrated into the area during the first millennium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants	9
5648666594	Swahili States - Poltical Pg.493	trading states along the east coast of Africa, the major Swahili city-states were Mogadishu, Barawa, Mombasa (Kenya), Gedi, Pate, Malindi, Zanzibar, Kilwa, and Sofala in the far south	10