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  1. 2. the largest and last of the three major pre-colonial empires to emerge in West Africa
  2. 7. relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line.
  3. 9. a natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem.
  4. 10. was a prince and founder of the Mali Empire.
  5. 12. (among North American Indian peoples of the northwest coast) an opulent ceremonial feast at which possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige.
  6. 13. of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.
  7. 16. was an African kingdom in Zimbabwe, which expanded to what is now modern-day Mozambique.
  8. 17. The sunset Islamic prayer.
  9. 18. a French-speaking West African nation, is a birthplace of the vodun (or “voodoo”)
  10. 20. a member of a Berber Muslim movement and dynasty that conquered the Spanish and North African empire of the Almoravids in the 12th century.
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  1. 1. a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries.
  2. 3. s a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwi and the town of Masvingo.
  3. 4. wrote one of the world's most famous travel logs, the Riḥlah
  4. 5. lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.
  5. 6. have minimal or no government; no one has authority to make decisions about the rules and enforce these on others
  6. 8. was the ninth mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign
  7. 11. a member of a people of northern Nigeria and adjacent regions.
  8. 13. is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa,
  9. 14. a member of a federation of Muslim Berber peoples that established an empire in Morocco, Algeria, and Spain in the 11th century. They were in turn driven out by the Almohads.
  10. 15. is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south,
  11. 19. West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria