Africa Flashcards

(11 cards)

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Savannah

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A grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions with few trees

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Plateus

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An area of relatively level high ground

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Sahara

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Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world

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Bantu

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Bantu peoples is used as a general label for the 300–600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages. They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa

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swahili

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Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of Southeast Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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subsistence farming

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farming that generates only enough produce to feed the farmer’s family, with little or nothing left over to sell

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mansa mansa

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Musa Keita I was the tenth Mansa, which translates as “sultan” or “emperor”, of the wealthy West African Mali Empire. At the time of Musa’s rise to the throne, the Malian Empire consisted of territory formerly belonging to the Ghana Empire in present-day southern Mauritania and in Melle and the immediate surrounding areas

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ghana

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Ghana (i / ˈ ɡ ɑː n ə /), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign unitary presidential constitutional democrac

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mali

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Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres. The population of Mali is 14.5 millio

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zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked sovereign state located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers. It borders South Africa to the south, Botswana and Namibia to the west,

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Timbuktu

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Timbuktu, also spelled as Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo, is a historical and still-inhabited city in the West African nation of Mali, situated 20 km north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. The town is the capital of the Timbuktu Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali. I

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