Across
- 3. invaded Songhai
- 6. belief in spirits , present in all animals, plants, and trees, help the living
- 8. worlds largest desert
- 9. priest like elders in an indigenous religion
- 12. what Mansa Musa had a lot of and threw at people
- 14. usually male, elected leaders oversee the village
- 15. another center of trade that was not Timbuktu
- 17. the 2 primary natural resources of the 3 main kingdoms in West Africa
- 18. kinship system with fathers side of family
- 20. long stories filled with history, legend, and mythology
- 21. center of trade in Mali
- 22. west African storytellers and poets
Down
- 1. within that same family,including gradparents,uncles,aunts,and cousins
- 2. smallest of the three kingdoms and came first
- 4. a group of chiefs or village elders would help to govern a village
- 5. a journey to a holy place
- 7. large freshwater lake five West African nations depend on it for water
- 10. kinship system with mothers side of family
- 11. handwoven fabric of narrow strips that are sewn together
- 13. lines of extended families and clans who can trace their roots to a common ancestor
- 16. biggest kingdom of the three
- 19. principal river of West Africa