Across
- 4. major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning
- 9. Continual eating of grasses or their roots without allowing them to regrow
- 10. A strong empire of Western African with containing timbuktu and gao
- 11. The central trading point for east and western Silk Roads met
- 12. A city in the southwestern region of India on the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea
- 14. an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets
- 15. The movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland
Down
- 1. A fertile spot in the desert where water is found
- 2. Reference for the trade that occurred all along several key trade routes that connected the western world to middle and east asia
- 3. the founder of Mali empire
- 5. Important trade route went from Timbuktu across the Sahara to Sijilmasa
- 6. A plague that struck Europe during the Middle Ages
- 7. A small group of islands to the north-east of Indonesia, between Celebes and New Guinea
- 8. A state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th centuries
- 13. A Title given to Mongol leaders, meaning "supreme ruler"