WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 13 MEDIEVAL AFRICA

group of people in which heredity is traced through the father

• griots

• lineage group

• patrilineal society

• stateless society

major export of Ghana

• coral

• gold

• salt

• ivory

people who worked with supernatural forces to communicate with the gods

• priests

• witch doctors

• druids

• diviners

important members of the “fleets of the desert”

• sailors

• ships

• captains

• camels

community of related extended families

• tribe

• clan

• lineage group

• town

highly desirable import for Ghana

• ivory

• coral

• salt

• gold

oral historians who preserved traditions and genealogies through stories

• griots

• diviners

• philosphers

• druids

common practice in early east Africa of growing only enough crops for personal use

• subsistence farming

• cash crops

• crop rotation

• manorial system

group of independent villages organized by clans and led by a local ruler or clan head

• tribal organization

• autocracy

• stateless society

• dictatorship

material used to build the Great Mosque of Kilwa

• coral

• marble

• ivory

• mud