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Family Lived with extended families Made up of several generations Matrilineal descent is traced through mothers Women join husbands family when married Husband pays wife’s family for loss Children are very important
Education Carried out by family and other villagers Learned history and skills needed as adults Oral History-Stories passed from generation to generation
Women Wives and mothers Men more rights-control what people did Some women fought in army and were queens
Slavery In Africa Captured people from other villages Could be used as laborers or freed for money Criminals or prisoners of war Muslim—forbid Muslim slaves –have non Muslim slaves