| Term | Definition |
|---|
| artifacts | remains, such as tools, jewelry, and other man-made objects |
| culture | people's unique way of life |
| hominids | humans and other creatures that walk upright |
| Paleilithic Age | ealier and longer part of the Stone Age aka the Old Stone Age, lasted from about 2.5 million years ago to 8000 BC |
| Neolithic Age | New Stone Age, started about 8000 BC and ended about 3000 BC |
| technology | ways of applying knowledge |
| Homo Sapiens | specie name for humans |
| Sahara | biggest desert in the world |
| escarpment | sharp, steep cliffs in Eastern Africa |
| canyons | fissures or breaks in the earth's surface that are in Eastern Africa formed millions of years ago by volcanic activity |
| rift valley | Great Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, extends about 4,000 miles from the Zambezi River through eastern and northeastern Africa into the Red Sea |
| savanna | open woodland, mainly grass with only a few large trees in some places, in others it looks like a park with high grass in places of the usual forest underbrush |
| tropical rainforest | near the equator, climate always hot, rainy and unhealthy |
| steppe/veld | north and south of the savannas, usually hot and dry |
| Europeans | about 5 million people of European origin live in sub-saharan Africa. They live mainly in the Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya |
| Arabs | settled along the coast of East Africa, recently many settled in West Africa |
| Asians | live in cities of southern and eastern Africa |
| Niger-Congo Family | largest of the languages groups and the on ethat covers the largest geographic area, divided into seven subfamilies, include Bantu |
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