Across
- 2. a weapon with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- 3. a family line traced through the mother
- 6. a white crystalline substance that gives seawater its characteristic taste
- 7. a medieval civilization and empire in West Africa
- 10. a braid
- 12. a short knife with a pointed and edged blade
- 13. an animal's set of ancestors
- 14. a brave or experienced soldier or fighter.
- 15. the new empire
- 16. long shirts
- 18. a person or group of people hired to escort and protect another person
- 19. an excavation in the earth for extracting coal or other minerals
Down
- 1. trade trade between peoples north and south of the Sahara
- 4. where their wealth came from
- 5. the process in which a liquid, such as water, turns into a gas
- 7. a yellow precious metal
- 8. a weapon with a long shaft and a pointed tip
- 9. a compulsory contribution to state revenue
- 11. a village built with salt
- 17. a red-brown metal