Across
- 3. -world's second largest continent
- 5. -14th century Moroccan traveler and explorer ibn battuta
- 7. -development of a unique culture along the east African coast.
- 9. -vital resource used for preserving food.
- 10. - direction toward the point of the horizon where the sun rises.
- 11. -crucial center for trans-saharan trade,Islamic scholarship, and culture in medieval west africa.
- 12. -traditional sailing vessels with triangular lateen sails that were crucial to maritime trade and cultural exchange.
- 13. -group of people,animals, and vehicles traveling together for safety and efficiency.
- 15. -shared beliefs,values,customs.art,language,and behaviors of a particular group of people that are learned and passed down through generations.
- 16. semidesert region
- 19. area of fertile grasslands,followed by rainforest.
- 23. group of descendants from a common ancestor
- 24. class of oral historians
Down
- 1. -influential city state on the swahili coast of East Africa that flourished as a major trading hub in the indian ocean
- 2. -group of bantu-speaking peoples who migrated across africa
- 4. -religious institution and the history of church buildings.
- 6. -emperor of ethiopia from 1889 to 1913
- 7. -powerful west African empire that existed from the 15th to the 16th centuries
- 8. -person whole acts as a link between people in order to try to bring about an agreement.
- 14. -money
- 17. -semitic language of the Arabs,spoken throughout the middle east and north Africa.
- 18. story of the founder of the Mali empire.
- 20. -relating to Africa or its people,customs,or languages
- 21. -exclusive right granted by a gov to a single entity to control or resource.
- 22. -maninka and mandinka word for a hereditary ruler.