Chapter 15

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Across
  1. 1. the part of North Africa today that is the Mediterranean coast of Lybya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
  2. 4. a traveler and historian
  3. 6. Mali's first great leader
  4. 9. trace ancestors through fathers
  5. 11. Grew into an empire based on gold trade
  6. 13. A kingdom whose rulers grew rich by taxing goods carried through territory
  7. 15. all spoke a common language
  8. 16. may have been Sundiata's nephew
  9. 18. Arabic blended with Bantu language
Down
  1. 2. Islamic reformers who overthrew Almoravids
  2. 3. made their homes in the forest
  3. 5. Islamic religious brotherhood that established an empire in North Africa and southern Spain
  4. 6. did not have a centralized system of power
  5. 7. Gao was the capital of their empire
  6. 8. a group of people named after the language they spoke
  7. 10. descedents of a common ancestor
  8. 12. trace ancestors through mothers
  9. 14. A southern africa empire established by the Mutota
  10. 17. Founders were Mande-speaking people