Tyler+White

Tyler White Political Post Classical Africa.

Central Not a very politicaled centered group of people
 * Stateless society


 * Stearns Definition of stateless society: "Organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and some authority we normally associate with the state. Stateless societies had forms of government, but the authority and power normally excercised by a ruler and his court in a kingdom could be held instead by a council of families or by the community, with no need to tax the population to support the ruler, the bureaucrats, the army, or the nobles, as was usually the case in the state-building societies."
 * Isolated from other cultures in a big valley
 * While living isolated had no trade with others except within themselves.
 * It is a rainforest.
 * These groups were hunter-gatherer

Eastern Northern West
 * Decent cities and ports but not large kingdoms
 * Lived on Ocean which can give them the oppertunity to trade with India and places within the Indian Ocean, maybe even China
 * Independant cities not usually part of a large kingdom
 * Many cities along Mediterranean sea and the Sahara desert, Captured by Invading Islamic forces.
 * trading outposts for cross trade on the Sahara to the kingdoms of the west.
 * Many large power comquering kingdoms.
 * Eventually converted to Islam
 * Very wealthy because of near by salt mines
 * Traded with northern cities
 * Kingdoms include
 * Ghana
 * Mali
 * Very large
 * sundiata
 * Gold!
 * Songhay
 * Sudanic States
 * Stearns definition of Sudanic States: "The sudanic states often had a patriacrch or council of elders of elders of a particular family or group of lineages as leaders. Usually these states had a territorial core area in which the people were of the same linguistic or ethnic background, but their power extended over subordinate communities.