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 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

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

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