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Stateless societies |
Societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking the concentration of power found in centralized states.Maghreb |
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Maghrib |
Arabic term for western North Africa. Almoravid’s |
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Almoravids |
A puritanical Islamic reform movement along the Berbers of northwest Africa; built an empire reaching from the Africa savanna into Spain. |
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Almohads |
A later puritanical Islamic reform movement along the Berbers of northwest Africa; also built an empire reaching from the African savanna into Spain. |
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Ethiopia |
A Christian kingdom in the highlands of east Africa. |
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Lalibela |
13th-century Ethiopian ruler; built great rock churches. |
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Sahel |
The extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara; an exchange region between the forests to the south and North Africa. |
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Sudanic states |
States trading to North Africa and mixing Islamic and indigenous ways. |
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Mali |
State of the Malinke people, centered between the Senegal and Niger rivers. |
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Juula |
Malinke merchants who traded throughout the Mali Empire and west Africa. |
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Mansa |
Title of the ruler of Mali. |
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Mansa Kankan Musa |
Made a pilgrimage to Mecca during the 14th century that became legendary because of the wealth distributed along the way. |
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Ishak al-Sahili |
An architect who returned with Kankan Musa to Mali; created a distinctive Sudanic architecture using beaten clay. |
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Sundiata |
Created a unified state that became the Mali Empire, died in 1260. |
