What people from West Africa influenced Sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa, and language throughout Africa. Bantu Bantu societies were made of kin-based networks (made of `thing`) with `person` as head, villages were made up of multiple kin-based networks and their heads led the villages. thing: families person: chief Small villages became `thing` as they grew thing: kingdoms Ghana had (which made them very rich): salt gold Ghana was taken over by which empire? Mali Founder of Mali Sundiata Muslim that spread Islam throughout Africa from Mali (and lots of gold) Mansa Musa What place also got rich through gold in Africa? Zimbabwe Zimbabwe traded goods through `network` network: Indian Ocean Trade People in East Africa? Swahili Christian empire in `place`: `name` place: Ethiopia name: Axum