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two territories Africa can be divided into

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Sahara and Sahel

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nickname for Africa because little was known about it before the 19th century

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Dark Continent

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eight mile stretch of water that separates Africa from Europe

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Strait of Gibraltar

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how many coutries are in Africa?

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54

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four climates of Africa

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desert, highland, savannah, rain forest

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Africa’s most dramatic geographic feature

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Eastern Rift System

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Africa’s highest peaks

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Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya

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world’s longest river

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Nile

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six water systems in Africa

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Nile, Congo, Niger, Orange, Zambezi, Limpopo

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deepest RIVER in Africa

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Congo

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Africa’s largest lake

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Lake Victoria

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world’s longest freshwater lake

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Lake Tanganyika

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second largest freshwater body in the world

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Lake Victoria

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five nations included in Saharan Africa

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Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

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vast seas of sand in Africa

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ergs

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“the gift of the Nile”

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Egypt

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the largest city of Africa

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Cairo

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state religion of Egypt

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Islam

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largest religious minority in Egypt

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Coptic Orthodox Church

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farmers in Egypt that live in small, low houses made of brick

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fellahin

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open-air market

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bazaar

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the lands west of Egypt

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Maghreb

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colony that became so wealthy and influential that it rivaled Rome

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Carthage

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Libya’s most productive farmland

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Gefara Plain

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Libya's capital and largest city
Tripoli
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most important export product for the Western Isles
mineral resources (oil, natural gas, phosphates)
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Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco
Maghreb
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Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Mali, Sudan
Sahel
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also known as Sudan
Sahel
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Sudan's capital
Khartoum
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world's largest swamp; found in Sudan
Sudd
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first recorded African American
Ethiopian eunuch
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newest nation as of July 2011
South Sudan
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ancient Egyptian term for Sudan
Nubia
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of the five countries that make up the Sahel, which is not in the French Sahel
Sudan
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in the French Sahel, what is the difference from the north to the south in each country
the north is desert in each country and in the south there is a main river system
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Africa's first and greatest Christian kingdom from about AD 300
Aksum
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the tropical climate of Western Africa produces _____
bananas, coffee, and cacao
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four tribes that make up Nigeria
Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, and Fulani
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Nigeria's modern capital
Abuja
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Nigeria's original capital
Lagos
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first Black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England
Samuel Adjai Crowther
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Ghana relies on _____ to prosper
gold and cacao
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formerly known as Zaire
Dem. Rep. of the Congo
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what country was originally responsible for exploration of the Congo River
Belgium
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explorer who traced the Congo RIver to its source in 1877
Henry M. Stanley
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what happened in the DRC in 1997
a civil war that forced Mobutu to step down and flee to the Rep. of the Congo
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dictator who took over DRC and removed all cultural influence, including Christian names
Joseph Mobutu
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in which portion of Africa is the Horn of Africa
Eastern Africa
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world's second largest freshwater lake
Lake Victoria
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lake named by David Livingstone for his queen
Lake Victoria
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the longest and second-deepest freshwater lake in the world
Lake Tanganyika
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dominant feature on the Horn of Africa
Ethiopian Highlands
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Ethiopia's capital, which is the only city with more than two million inhabitants
Addis Ababa
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tall, thin people that are considered herder-warriors; found in Kenya
Masai
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tribe that managed to keep their farmland from the Masai
Kikuyu
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Kenya's first president
Jomo Kenyatta
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Kenya's largest export industry
agriculture
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first bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Frumentius (Father of Peace)
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one of Africa's most spectacular natural wonders that is formed by the Zambezi River
Victoria Falls
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Southern Africa's largest desert region
Kalahari
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wealthiest and most highly developed nation in Africa
(Republic of) South Africa
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who founded Cape Town
Dutch colonists
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a program of racial segregation
apartheid
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Communist revolutionary that took over Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe
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Communist leader of the African National Congress
Nelson Mandela
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only significant mountain range in South Africa that forms the Great Escarpment
Drakensberg Range
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began a program of modernization in Ethiopia to increase the prosperity and security of his people
Haile Selassie I
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nomadic tribes which roam in the desert; on the steppe and savanna herdsmen tend animals and farmers grow crops
Tuaregs
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deposed Libya’s pro-Western king and established a military dictatorship, banned all traces of Western culture, established Islamic law, and seized control of the oil industry
Muammar Qaddafi
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sometimes called the "Gold Coast"
Ghana
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the Aswan High Dam in the Nile Valley reaches a huger reservoir named after ______
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Ghana's first president who originally was an example, but eventually turned to Communism
Kwame Nkrumah

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