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Chapter 15 Quarterly
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are lineages? | The people who are descended from a common ancestor |
| What were stateless societies? | Cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government |
| What was a patrilineal? | Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the father |
| What was a matrilineal? | Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother |
| What was the Maghrib? | A region of western North Africa, consisting of the Mediterranean coastlands of what is now Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria |
| What were the Almoravids? | An Islamic religious brotherhood that established an empire in North Africa and southern Spain in the 11th century a.d. |
| What were the Almohads? | 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. |
| What was the Ghana? | A West African kingdom that grew rich from taxing and controlling trade and that established an empire in the 9th–11th centuries a.d. |
| What was Mali? | A West African empire that flourished from 1235 to the 1400s and grew rich from trade |
| Who was Sundiata? | Mali's first great leader |
| Who was Mansa Musa? | A ruler who may have been Sandiata's grandnephew |
| Who was Ibn Buttata? | A traveler and historian |
| Who were the Songhai? | The people to the east |
| Who were the Hausa? | A West African people who lived in several city-states in what is now northern Nigeria. |
| Who were the Yoruba? | A West African people who formed several kingdoms in what is now Benin and southern Nigeria. |
| What was Benin? | A kingdom that arose near the Niger River delta in the 1300s and became a major West African state in the 1400s. |
| What was the Swahili language? | An Arabic-influenced Bantu lan- guage that is spoken widely in eastern and central Africa. |
| What was the Great Zimbabwe? | A city in southeastern Africa? |
| What was the Mutapa Empire? | Relating to a southern African empire established by Mutota in the 15th century a.d. |
| What was the Efe? | Just one of several hunting-gathering societies in Africa |
| What are women in the Efe society? | Gatherers |
| What is central to African society? | Family organization |
| Who founded the Almoravid Empire? | Muslim reformers |
| What happened in the mid-1100s? | The Almohads seized power from the Almoravids |
| What were the two most important trade items? | Gold and salt |
| What happened in the year 800? | Ghana had become an empire |
| What happened in 1235? | The kingdom of Mali had emerged |
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