West-Africa Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. What helped protect the king from outside attackers?
  2. 6. What river helps fertilize nearby land and provide fish for eating?
  3. 8. What is the process of tracing through the women's bloodlines instead of the men's called?
  4. 9. What desert covers approximately 3.5 million square miles in North Africa and some of West Africa?
  5. 10. What country is fabled as the "land of gold"?
  6. 11. What people made iron tools?
Down
  1. 1. Trade How did Ghana gain much money with taxes?
  2. 3. What is the area with tall grasses and scattered trees called?
  3. 4. What city helped archaeologists know if there were any cities since before outsiders came?
  4. 5. What is an object left behind from an earlier culture?
  5. 7. The process of melting ore to extract iron or other metals is called?
  6. 9. What semidesert is on the south of the Sahara?