Chapter 15

 

Societies and Empires of Africa

 

North & Central African Societies

 

Hunter-Gathering Societies

  • The Efe 
  • Social Structure

 

 

Stateless Societies

 
  • Tracking family descent

 

  • Age set system

 

 

 

 

Lineage groups ruled

 

Muslim States

 

Islam played a vital role in North Africa

 

Islam spread to Maghrib 

African rulers converted to Islam

Based government upon Islamic Law

 

Almoravid Reformers

 
  • 11th century, Muslim reformers founded the Almoravid Empire
  • By convincing Abd Allah Ibn Yasin to preach.
  • His followers were known as Almoravids.
 

Almoravid Empire

 
  • Spread Islam through conquest
  • Found Marrakech
  • Moors (spain) & Ghana
 
  • Almohads seized power
  • teachings of Ibn Tumart
  • Overthrew Almoravids
 

Section 2

 

West African Civilizations

 

Empire of Ghana

 
  • Trades across the Sahara made possible by the camel.
  • Soninke people called their ruler ghana
  • Kingdom of Ghana 700s
 

Empire of Mali 1235

 
  • South of Ghana, the Kingdom of Mali emerged
  • Wealth built on gold
  • Trade routes shifted eastward
  • People of Mali seized power
 
  • Sundiata became mansa or emperor
  • Later, muslim, Mansa Musa ruled
  • After 50 years, the empire began to weaken
 

Empire of Songhai

 
  • Sunni Ali
  • Askia Muhammad
 

Other Peoples West Africa

 
  • Hausa
  • Yoruba
  • Benin
 

Eastern City-States and Southern Empires

 

Section 3

 

East Coast Trade Cities

 
  • Swahili language
  • Kilwa
  • Portuguese conquest
 

Islamic influences

 

Southern Africa & Great Zimbabwe

 

The Mutapa Empire

 
  • Fertile soil, good rainfall, and ample wood
  • Mutapa Empire
  • Increasing European interference
 

Influence Today

 

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