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African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power were __________ societies.
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__________ was the Arabic word for eastern North Africa.
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__________ was the Arabic word for western North Africa.
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The __________ were the first Berber puritanical reform movement that moved southward against African kingdoms of the savanna.
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The __________ were the second Berber puritanical reform movement that penetrated into sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Christian __________ kingdom developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalaibela.
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The __________ was the extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara.
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Taken as a whole, the __________ states included Mali and Songhay and all of those kingdoms that developed between the Takrur and Senegal Rivers on the west and the Gao and Niger Rivers on the east.
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__________ broke away from Ghana in the thirteenth century and established an empire between the Senegal and Niger.
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Malinke merchants, __________, formed small partnerships to carry out trade throughout the Mali empire.
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The "Lion Prince" of Mali was __________, the monarch responsible for the unification of the Mali state.
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Professional oral historians or __________ served as keepers of traditions and advisors to the Mali kings.
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Two of the most significant "port" cities of Mali were Jenne and __________, which lay just off the flood plain on the great bend in the Niger River.
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The successor state to Mali was the independent kingdom of __________ that formed under a Berber dynasty.
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Under a dynamic leader, __________, the empire of Songhay was formed.
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Under the rule of __________ the Great Songhay extended its boundaries until it dominated the central Sudan by the mid-sixteenth century.
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The normal patrilineal customs of Islam were outlined in the __________ or Islamic law.
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The Arabic term for the East African coast was __________.
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The string of urbanized trading ports including Mogadishu, Mombassa, Malindi, Kilwa, Pate, and Zanzibar shared the common Bantu-based and Arabic-influenced __________ language.
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The Arabic traveler and commentator __________ described African societies and cultures in his travel accounts.
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__________ is the study of population.
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The change from slow to rapid population growth often associated with the process of industrialization is referred to as the __________.
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The __________ culture featured a highly developed art style that flourished between 500 B.C.E. and 200 C.E.
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The __________ city-states developed in northern Nigeria ca. 1200 C.E.
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__________ was a city-state founded among the Edo people in the fourteenth century by Ewuare the Great.
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By the late fifteenth century the Kingdom of __________ on the lower Congo River was flourishing around its capital at Mbanza Kongo.
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A Bantu confederation of Shona-speaking peoples located between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, __________ featured royal courts built of stone that gave the kingdom its name.
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