5th grade Africa in modern times
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halonhayden on January 4, 2011
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Swahili | English |
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| Sudan and Egypt |  Cairo and Khartoum are the capitals of which two African countries |
| Aswan high dam | what was built in 1970 that controlled the flooding of the Nile and provided power for the people's use |
| Mediterranean and Red Sea | what two bodies of water does the Suez canal connect |
| First Arab nation to make peace with Israel | what is unique about Egypt's relationship with the nation of Israel |
| Sudan | what is the largest African country |
| Sudd Swamp / Sudan | what is the world's largest swamp called, in which African country is it located |
| Horn of Africa | a large peninsula that resembles the horn of a rhinoceros |
| Lake Victoria / Lake Tanganyika | what are the two large lakes located in Eastern Africa |
| Joseph Mobutu | What dictator took over the country of Congo and renamed it Zaire |
| Haile Selassie | what emperor led the country of Ethiopia |
| Tanzania | which country contains Mount Kilimanjaro and Africa's three largest lakes |
| Ethiopia | was never a European colony |
| Kinshasa | what is the capital of democratic Republic of Congo |
| Pygmies | what are the short descendants of the original inhabitants of Ethiopia called |
| Communism | system of government that took over Ethiopia and led it away from the progress it had seen |
| Addis Ababa | what is the largest city/capital in Ethiopia |
| Nairobi | what is the capital of Kenya |
| Nasser | who is the Egyptian president who took over the Suez Canal by force. |
| Anwar Sadat | who was the Egyptian president who was the first head of an Arab state to make peace with Israel |
| Emperor Haile Selassie 1 | Ethiopian ruler who tried to modernize his country but was defeated by Communism |
| Kenyatta | first president of Kenya |
| Nelson Mandela | first black president of South Africa |
| Julius Nyerere | leader who brought Communism to Tanzania |
| Mobutu | leader who changed the name of his country to Zaire |
| Ethiopia | what African nation has been independent for over 2,000 years |
| Cairo | what is the largest city in Africa |
| Suez Canal | connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea |
| Republic of Sudan | the largest country in Africa |
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