600-1450+-+Sub-Saharan+Africa+-+Theme+3

Theme # 3- State Building, Expansion and Conflict

 * **__Political Structures and Forms of Governance__**
 * 1) Stateless society
 * 2) Governed through family and kingship
 * 3) Village council
 * 4) Villages chiefs negotiated village affairs
 * __**Empires**__
 * 1) Maili empire
 * 2) Kingdom of Kongo
 * 3) Songhay empire
 * __**Nations and Nationalism**__


 * __**Revolts and Revolutions**__
 * 1) Nomadic raids
 * 2) Slave raids
 * __**Regional, Transregional and Global Structures**__