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2. 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

3. Education Carried out by family and other villagers
Learned history and skills needed as adults
Oral History-Stories passed from generation to generation

4. Women Wives and mothers Men more rights-control what people did
Some women fought in army and were queens

5. 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