West Africa

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Across
  1. 4. a payment made by a ruler or country for protection
  2. 6. family line through your father
  3. 9. a brightly colored cloth
  4. 10. trade between people north and south of Sahara
  5. 12. where some plants grow
Down
  1. 1. longest river in west africa
  2. 2. a person who tells stories, sings songs, and recites poems to tell history
  3. 3. the process of melting ore or other metals from it
  4. 5. first west african ruler to practice Islam
  5. 7. a plain
  6. 8. family like through your mother
  7. 11. a hot desert that covers 3.5 million square miles