West Africa Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 6. an immediate family plus other close relatives
- 8. based on a man's family line
- 10. a piece of jewelry or other object used as a charm to provide protection against bad luck, illness, or evil
- 11. inheritance of the right to rule
- 13. an area of abundant trees and shrubs
- 16. based on a woman's family line
- 17. people who make iron tools
- 18. a verbal artist of the Mande people
- 19. a village built with salt
Down
- 1. a small community
- 2. a song style in which a singer or musician leads with a call and a group responds
- 3. the secret source of gold
- 4. the land in which Mansa Musa ruled
- 5. an area of lush vegetation and year round rainfall
- 7. a payment made by one ruler or country to another for protection or as a sign of submission
- 9. a story that is usually passed down orally and becomes parts of a community's tradition
- 12. an account of the line of ancestry within a family
- 14. a land in west Africa some people call " land of gold"
- 15. the land in which Sunni Ali ruled
- 16. the ruler of Mali