Early West Africa

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  1. 5. an economic good; something useful or valued
  2. 7. an account of the line of ancestry within a family
  3. 8. payment made by one ruler or country to another for protection or as a sign of submissionEvaporation the process in which a liquid, such as water, turns into a gas
  4. 12. a medieval civilization and empire in West Africa
  5. 15. a woven clothTolerance to be sympathetic and accepting of what others believe or do, even if those ideas differ from your own
  6. 17. a large, hot desert in North Africa that covers about 3.5 million square miles
  7. 18. a people who broke away from the empire of Mali and eventually built their own vast empire in West Africa
  8. 20. to examine or think about carefully
  9. 21. a West African empire ruled by the Mande that became a major crossroads of the Islamic world
  10. 22. a vegetation zone of tall grasses and scattered trees, with a long rainy season
  11. 23. a zone of semidesert, south of the Sahara, where short grasses, small bushes, and a few trees grow
  12. 24. River the longest river in West Africa, and a kind of trading highway in early times
  13. 25. a family line traced through the mother
  14. 27. a people living in West Africa in the 500s B.C.E. who mastered ironworking
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  1. 1. one or a number of simple shapes, such as triangles, squares, or circles
  2. 2. an item left by an earlier culture
  3. 3. to be completely committed to something; loyal
  4. 4. functioning in the best way, with very little or no waste
  5. 6. to say what will happen in the future, based on experience or reason
  6. 8. trade trade between peoples north and south of the Sahara
  7. 9. the study of wisdom, knowledge, and the nature of reality
  8. 10. an ancient West African city built along the Niger River
  9. 11. a family line traced through the father
  10. 13. a series of actions that produce a certain result
  11. 14. Musa the first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly
  12. 16. the process of melting ore to produce iron or other metals from it
  13. 19. to change one’s belief on something
  14. 26. a technique in which shaped pieces of fabric are attached to a background fabric to form a design or picture