Chapter 15 Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. most famous Mali leader, Sundiata's grandnephew
  2. 6. descendants of a common ancestor
  3. 8. part of North Africa, now the coast of Libya, Algeria, and Morocco
  4. 10. capital was Gao, and they gained control of all trade routes
  5. 12. trace their ancestors through their fathers
  6. 13. Bantu language
  7. 14. trace their ancestors through their mothers
  8. 15. strict religious brotherhood
  9. 18. people that spoke a common language like the Hausa
Down
  1. 1. made homes in the forest, based claims to rule off of ancestors
  2. 2. traveler and historian who found out he could travel without crime
  3. 3. group of people named after the language they spoke
  4. 5. Berber Muslim reformers, seized power from Almoravids
  5. 7. greatest African kingdom
  6. 9. wealthy kingdom, founders were Mande-speaking people
  7. 11. referred to as the Soninke region, it was a kingdom
  8. 16. claimed all of Zimbabwe with his army
  9. 17. Mali's first great leader