Select the Word or Phrase That Best Matches the Definition

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
-People whose lands were east of the Niger River in what is now southern Nigeria in West Africa;they built a complex society that rejected kingship and centralized statehood and relied on other institutions to provide social coherence.

A) Paleolithic persistence
B) Igbo
C) Iroquois
D) Timur
E) Fulbe
F) Ming dynasty China
G) Zheng He
H) European Renaissance
I) Ottoman Empire
J) seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K) Safavid Empire
L) Songhay Empire
M) Timbuktu
N) Mughal Empire
O) Malacca
P) Aztec Empire
Q) Inca Empire