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Across 1. The spread of desert climate. 3. Commanded the Nile Valley from Nubia to the Medditerranean at about 680 B.C. And reconstructed an old mudbrick temple into a magnificent monuement. 5. Excess food. 8. Husband of the Queen of Sheba. 10. Morrocco sent armies to seize Songhai gold mines creating a civil war. 14. Greek, Egyptian, Arab, and Jewish merchants mingled with traders from Africa, India and other regions, spreading Christian beliefs. 15. A family where the parents and children work together as a unit. 18. Massive stone ruins that sprawl across the rocky hilltops near the great bend in the Limpopo River. 22. Greatest emporer of Mali. 23. Important kinship ties and inheritence were passed down through the father's side. 24. Traditional god of the Kikuyu people of East Africa.

Down 2. Clearing forest and brush then burning the remains using the ash as fertilizer. 4. Group of households that claimed a common ancestor. 6. A Greek storyteller who passed epics down orally from generation to generation. 7. Kings who expanded their influence over both the gold mining regions to the South and the salt supplies of Taghaza. 9. Distant military stations. 11. A king that was both a political and religous leader. 12. Inheritence traced through the mother's side. 13. The migration of West African hearders and farmers to the South and East between 1000 B.C. and 1000 A.D. 14. Grassy plain. 16. A valuable product, like salt. 17. A soldier king who ruled Songhai, a city by the Niger river, from 1464-1492. 19. Nubian king who conquered Egypt about 750 B.C. 20. Bantu-speaking people survived by______and food gathering. 21. Queen of Sheba. Mother of the first emperor of Etheopia.