Societies and Empires of Africa

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Across
  1. 2. Follow Ibn Tumart's teachings, the second Berber Muslim
  2. 4. Important trade routes shifting made them wealthy
  3. 7. Family members trace lineage through mothers
  4. 8. This kingdoms two largest cities were Oyo and Ife
  5. 10. a kingdom, that grew into an empire by gold trade, that was established by the Shona people
  6. 11. Named after the language that they spoke, briefly ruled by Songhai
  7. 12. Family members trace lineage through fathers
  8. 13. Mali's first great/powerful ruler, came to power by crushing an unpopular ruler
  9. 14. Empire that came after the mali, the city of Gao was their capital
  10. 17. Descendants of a common ancestor
  11. 18. expanded Songhai through military conquest
Down
  1. 1. The language created by Bantu and Arabic mixing
  2. 3. Devout muslim/mali leader, who greatly expanded mali
  3. 5. A traveler/historian who travelled for 27 years, visiting most of the Islamic countries
  4. 6. Societies without a centralized form of gov
  5. 9. Follow Ibn Yasid's teachings, called the people of the ribat
  6. 15. A kingdom that grew rich off of taxing the goods that were carried through their territory
  7. 16. Made their homes in the forest, traded with the Portuguese for pepper, ivory and leopard skins