Chapter 15

3. one of the most famous African Muslim rulers who built mosques, attended public prayers, and supported the preaching of Muslim holy men.
5. Societies that did not have a centralized system of power. They instead had the authority balanced among lineages of equal power so that no one family had too much control.
8. members of this society trace their ancestors through their mothers.
12. originally these people belonged belonged to a number of small city-states in the forests on the southern edge of the savanna in what is today Benin and southwestern Nigeria. In these communities people farmed.
13. by 670, Muslims ruled Egypt Nd had entered this place. This is the part of North Africa that is today the Mediterranean coast of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
16. a kingdom founded by Mande-speaking people, who lived south of Ghana. It's wealth was built on gold.
17. people who broke away from Mali as it began to decline. They built up an army and extended their territory to the large bend in the Niger Ricer near Gao.

1. by the time of Mutota's death, this empire had conquered all of what is now Zimbabwe except the eastern portion.
2. members of this society trace their ancestors back through their fathers.
4. an empire that was built on the gold trade. This area was suited for farming and cattle raising. The Shona people settled here.
5. Mali's first great leader who came to power by crushing a cruel, unpopular leader.
6. a strict religious brotherhood founded by Ibn Yasin.
7. Arabic blended with the Bantu language creates this language.
9. another group of Berber Muslim reformers who seized power from the Almoravids. They began as a religious movement in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
10. a traveler and historian who was revived by one of Mansa Musa's successors. He praised the people for their study of the Qur'an, however criticized them for not strictly practicing Islam's moral code.
11. The members of this believe they are descendants of a common ancestor.
14. a group of people named after the language they spoke. These people first emerged in the svanna area east of Mali and Songhai in what is today northern Nigeria.
15. these people made their homes in the forest, and it was established to the south and wear of Ife, near the delta of the Niger River.
18. a kingdom who's rulers were growing rich by taxing the goods that traders carried through their territory.