North and Central African Societies
The people – living, dead, and unborn – who are descended from a common ancestor ...
Answer: lineage.
A West African kingdom that grew rich from taxing and controlling trade that established an empire in the 9th-11th centuries A.D. ...
Answer: Ghana.
An Arabic-influenced Bantu language that is used widely in eastern and central Africa ...
Answer: Swahili.
Cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government ...
Answer: stateless society.
Ruler of Mali, c. 1312 to c. 1337 ...
Answer: Mansa Musa.
An island, a national historic site, and hamlet community located in S Tanzania ...
Answer: Kilwa (or Kilwa Kisiwani).
A region of western North Africa, consisting of the Mediterranean coastlands of what is now Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria ...
Answer: Maghrib.
Maghrebi traveler, explorer, and scholar ...
Answer: Ibn Battuta.
A seaport in E Africa: the capital of Somalia ...
Answer: Mogadishu (or Mogadiscio).
An Islamic religious brotherhood that established an empire in North Africa and southern Spain in the 11th century A.D. ...
Answer: Almoravids.
A West African people who lived in several city-states in what is now northern Nigeria ...
Answer: Hausa.
A medieval city in SW Zimbabwe that served as the capital of Zimbabwe during the Late Iron Age, flourishing between the 11th and 15th centuries ...
Answer: Great Zimbabwe.
A group of Islamic reformers who overthrew the Almoravid Dynasty and established an empire in North Africa and southern Spain in the 12th century A.D. ...
Answer: Almohads.
A kingdom that arose near the Niger River delta in the 1300s and became a major West African state in the 1400s ...
Answer: Benin.
Relating to a southern African empire established by Mutota in the 15th century A.D. ...
Answer: Mutapa.