Sub-Saharan African Empires

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Across
  1. 4. Northern Islamic dynasty that competed with Ghana for resources.
  2. 6. SALAH, Capital of Ghana taken by the Almoravids by 1075.
  3. 8. City that became Songhai’s capital.
  4. 13. City known as a center of trade and learning.
  5. 14. Empire that followed Ghana and extended to the Niger River.
  6. 15. Go-betweens in Ghana’s trade.
  7. 18. Resource mined north of Ghana and traded by its people.
  8. 19. Ghana traded this valuable resource, mined south of its territory.
Down
  1. 1. River along which Gao was located.
  2. 2. BAKRI, Muslim historian who wrote that Ghana’s capital should be two separate cities.
  3. 3. SHELLS, Currency used in Songhai.
  4. 5. Sickly prince who regained the ability to walk and took his crown in Mali.
  5. 7. Ghana’s king created this by allowing trade in gold dust only.
  6. 9. People who rebelled as Ghana declined and kept Sundiata’s story alive.
  7. 10. One of the crops traded in Mali.
  8. 11. ALI, Songhai ruler who governed from 1464 to 1492.
  9. 12. System of government departments with different responsibilities.
  10. 14. Kingdom whose ruler sent an army to conquer Songhai.
  11. 16. MUHAMMAD, Ruler who established a bureaucracy and built libraries and Sankore University.
  12. 17. Title of Mali’s ruler.