African Empires and Their Legacy

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Across
  1. 2. Largest desert in the world that dominates the northern third of Africa.
  2. 4. World longest river, resides in Africa and goes as far as 4,160 miles.
  3. 6. Dubbed as Lucy's older sister, scientists discovered the skeleton to be way older than Lucy.
  4. 7. Plains that cover over 5.7k square miles, and home to annual migration of wildebeests.
  5. 9. Covers about 40% of the continent. Varies in grassland and mountainous areas in open grassy fields.
Down
  1. 1. Narrow band of dry, flat grasslands that stretch across the continent.
  2. 3. The idea that spiritual and supernatural forces act through all aspects of nature.
  3. 5. Important members of society relied for oral tradition telling as they had no system of writing at that time.
  4. 8. Unlike the Sahara, this desert receives small portions of rainwater each year, and lets scrubby plants grow in it.
  5. 10. A tiny village in the West African nation of Nigeria that forged iron technology and created finely crafted pieces of pottery.