This colorful presentation illustrates how north and central Africa developed hunting-gathering societies, stateless societies, and Muslim states. Modern African nations often must find ways to include these various peoples and traditions in one society. This lesson includes concepts like hunting-gathering societies, forest dwellers, social structure, stateless societies, lineage, family descent, age-set systems, Muslim states, the Maghrib, Islamic law, Almoravid reformers, Almohads, and more.I'