Across
- 4. a payment made by a ruler or country for protection
- 6. family line through your father
- 9. a brightly colored cloth
- 10. trade between people north and south of Sahara
- 12. where some plants grow
Down
- 1. longest river in west africa
- 2. a person who tells stories, sings songs, and recites poems to tell history
- 3. the process of melting ore or other metals from it
- 5. first west african ruler to practice Islam
- 7. a plain
- 8. family like through your mother
- 11. a hot desert that covers 3.5 million square miles