World History Review

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Across
  1. 1. ancient town in northern Ethiopia
  2. 3. largest desert
  3. 4. stretched along the East African coast from Somali to Mozambique.
  4. 6. stretches along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
  5. 8. basically a savanna
  6. 9. alphabetic writing system of Ethiopia
  7. 11. found in the Congo river basin on the Atlantic Ocean side of the continent
  8. 12. West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin and Togo
  9. 14. the Nilo-Saharan language of the Songhai
  10. 15. a Bantu language
  11. 16. known for spreading the Islamic faith in West Africa
  12. 19. the best-known Zagwe emperor of Ethiopia
  13. 21. a tropical grassland with warm temperatures year round and seasonal rainfall.
  14. 22. one of the earliest known societies of Western Africa
  15. 24. a walled, circular area below the Hill Complex
  16. 25. developed cities like Timbuktu and Gao into important cultural centers
  17. 28. seasonal change with a lot of wind
  18. 29. country in west africa
Down
  1. 1. a social category or corporate social group, consisting of people of similar age, who have a common identity
  2. 2. Africa's oldest independent country
  3. 3. initiated the imperial expansion of the western Sudanese kingdom of Songhai
  4. 5. a landlocked country in West Africa
  5. 7. livestock raising
  6. 10. storytellers
  7. 13. a country in West Africa
  8. 17. the first ruler of the Mali Empire
  9. 18. a member of a people of northern Nigeria and adjacent regions.
  10. 20. a group of Niger–Congo languages
  11. 23. medieval African city known for its large circular wall and tower
  12. 26. the first King of Ethiopia to convert to Christianity
  13. 27. the ruling dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire