Across
- 1. merchant, explorer, and writer
- 4. hieroglyphic character or symbol
- 10. important decisions made by state officials
- 11. relating to an empire
- 12. empire in West Africa
- 13. a leader of an empire
- 15. Muslim scholar and explorer
- 17. hole is drilled into the human skull
- 18. the time between successive spring or autumn equinoxes
- 19. the highest class
- 20. Emperor of the Mongol Empire
Down
- 2. recruitment to the civil service
- 3. the Chinese philosopher
- 5. tenth Mansa of the Mali Empire
- 6. recording devices fashioned from strings
- 7. travel across the Sahara
- 8. line of hereditary rulers
- 9. a military leader
- 14. selected on the basis of their ability
- 16. fifth khagan of the Mongol Empire