Across
- 1. What is another term for lineages?
- 3. What were the 2 most important natural resources in Ghana?
- 4. Lines of extended families and clans who can trace their roots to a common ancestor
- 6. What is a pilgramage?
- 9. What is the world's largest desert?
- 11. What empire came after the fall of Mali?
- 13. Who used to go into gold mines and bring out gravel to find gold?
- 14. What was the primary religion of Songhai?
- 15. What was a long stories filled with history, legend, and mythology?
Down
- 2. Who brought Islam to West African societies?
- 5. Who conquered Ghana in the year 1240?
- 7. Who was one of the greatest leaders of the empire of Mali?
- 8. What was the basic or nuclear, unit of a Western African village or community often included parents and children?
- 10. What was the name of West African storytellers and poets who reacalled historical events and transmitted history and culture from one generation to the next?
- 12. What was a belief that, animals, plants, trees have spirits and help the living?