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Second Africa is the _______ largest continent in the world
Plateau Africa's main landform
Horn of Africa What is the eastern peninsula on which Somalia is located commonly referred to?
Cape of Good Hope What is the southern tip of the continent called?
Strait of Gibraltar Where do Europe and Africa almost touch?
Suez Canal What man-made body of water separates Africa and Asia
Mt. Kilamenjaro What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Tanzania Within which country is the highest mountain in Africa located?
Mt. Kenya What is the second highest mountain in Africa?
Atlas Mountains What is the longest mountain range in Africa
Morocco and Algeria What countries does the largest mountain range pass through?
Ngorongoro What is Africa's largest crater?
Tanzania What country is the largest crater located in?
Escarpment Term for a long line of cliffs
Drakensberg Escarpments What is the name of most famous escarpment in Africa?
The Great Rift Valley What is the name of the giant depression in East Africa that runs from Jordan to Mozambique
Nile, Congo (Zaire) River, Niger River, and Zambezi River Name the four largest rivers in Africa
Lake Victoria What is the largest lake in Africa called?
White Nile Lake Victoria is the source of which river?
Lake Tana What is the source of the Blue Nile?
Lake Tanganyika What is the second deepest lake in the world and it seperates DR Congo and Tanzania
Zambezi Which river forms the Victoria Falls?
Zimbabwe and Zambia Which two countries border the Victoria Falls?
Mozambique Channel What is the name of the body of water that seperates Mozambique and Madagascar?
Sahara What is the largest desert in the world?
Libyan Desert Large desert in southwestern Egypt?
Nubian Desert What desert is found in northeastern Sudan and East Egypt?
Kalahari Desert What desert is found in Botswana?
Namib Desert What is the desert in Namibia?
Sudan Savannas north of the equator
Sahel Grasslands in west Africa north of the equator
Veld Savannas south of the equator
Canary Islands Name of the Spanish-owned islands west of Morocco
Azores Portuguese Islands in Atlantic Ocean
St. Helena Napoleon's last prison
Comoros Islands Name of the Islands east of Africa?
Olduvai Gorge The site in which Louis and Mary Leakey found some of the oldest remains of humans.
Bantu Largest group of African languages
Negroid 70% of Africa's population
Caucasoid primarily Arabs and Berbers; 25% of Africa's population
Mongoloid Asian primarily in East and South Africa
Afrikans Combination of Dutch and African languages
Swahili Bantu language that helps united East Africa
Ashanti Empire Which African group fought the British in what today is Ghana
Zulu What black African tribe fought the British in the 1870's and 1880's in South Africa
Fulani What was the name of the rebellion against the British in Nigeria in the 1890's
Hehe What African group rebelled against the Germans in German East Africa in the 1890s
King and Gold Ghana means _______
Mandingo the group of people that formed Mali
Mansa Musa Mali leader gave lots of money as he went to Mecca
Islam What was the religion of Mali?
Sonni Ali Who created a good government that dispensed justice effectly in Songhai
Timbuktu What was the learning center of Songhai
Brazil Where did most of the slaves go?
Great Britain What was the first country to leave the slave trade?
West Africa Patrol English ships that attacked slave trading ships
Freetown, Sierra Leone What was the city where the English sent freed slaves
Dahomey and Ashanti Which two African tribes greatly helped the slave trade?
Middle Passage Two month long voyage across the Atlantic
Scramble for Africa The term for Europe's new interest in Africa
Berlin Conference (Congress of Berlin) The event where Europe divide Africa
The White Man's Burden Book written by Kipling about how whites had to civilize Africa
Chauvinism extreme nationalism
Jingoism extreme nationalism mixed with militarism
Mohammad Ali Led the Egyptians against the French
1870-1950 When was Egypt a protecturate of Great Britain?
March 1, 1896 When was the Battle of Adowa
Battle of Adowa In what battle did Ethopia beat the Italians?
Leopold II Who created the Congo Free State?
France What country controlled most of West Africa?
Boers dutch peasents that were given land in South Africa
The Great Trek Migration of Dutch to the north to escape British rule in South Africa
Orange Free State and Transvaal Two republics set up by the Dutch in South Africa
Cecil Rhodes Prime Minister of Cape Colony
Shaka leader of the Zulu
Cape to Cairo Railroad Railroad that Cecil Rhodes want to build
Boer War War that the British started to get the Dutch republics in South Africa
Afrikaners descendents of the Boers
Apartheid System of segregation in South Africa
Patronage Term for giving your friends jobs
Cameroon This country has lots of crops and gold; it has a high standard of living compared to its neighbors
Gabon This country has oil, reasources, and trade surplus; one of Africa's wealthest and fairly stable
Moi Ruler of Kenya for 24 years and they experenced economic growth and the most prosporous country in SSA; burned tons of ivory
Kikuya dominant tribe in Kenya
Masai nomadic herders in Kenya that refuse to westernize
Luo tribe that Odinga belongs to
Sudan First country to get indepence in SSA
Gum Arabic Crop in Suddan that is used to make gum and medicine
Sharia Law Islamic law
National Islamic Front Extremist rulers of Sudan
Janjaweed Arabic militas that burn villages in Sudan
Darfur western area of Sudan with all the problems
Ethiopia One of the oldest countries in the world; currently fighting an undeclared war with Somalia
The Raid of Entebbe The event where Israeli special forces rescued hostages in Uganda
Lord's Resistance Army Radical christian group in Uganda that uses child soldiers
Serengeti Plain Savanna in Tanzania
Masai Mara Savanna in Kenya
Ujamaa Shawili for working together
Hutu Majority tribe in Rwanda
Tutsi Minority tribe in Rwanda
1994 Year that the Rwandan genocide occured
Townships Huge slums in South Africa
Soweto Most famous slum around Johnnesburg
Gift of the Nile Nickname for Egypt
Gulf of Sidra Area where US ships were attacked by Libya
South Africa First country to completely dismantle its nuclear program
Liberia Country created by US Congress for freed slaves
1967-1970 Dates of the civil war in Nigeria
Ibo group of people in Nigeria that wanted to break away from Nigeria
Biafra Country created by the Ibo in Nigeria
Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta Group that wants the Niger delta to break away from Nigeria
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Created March 18, 2008
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uvarules6 : Changed Cape of Good Hope → What is the southern tip of ther continent called? to Cape of Good Hope → What is the southern tip of the continent called?
uvarules6 : Changed Suddan → First country to get indepence in SSA to Sudan → First country to get indepence in SSA
uvarules6 : Changed Gift of the Nile → Nickname for Africa to Gift of the Nile → Nickname for Egypt
uvarules6 : Changed Comoros Islands → Islands east of what African country? to Comoros Islands → Name of the Islands east of Africa?
uvarules6 : Changed Darfur → western area of Suddan with all the problems to Darfur → western area of Sudan with all the problems
uvarules6 : Changed White Nile River → Lake Victoria is the source of which river? to White Nile → Lake Victoria is the source of which river?
uvarules6 : Changed National Islamic Front → Extremist rulers of Suddan to National Islamic Front → Extremist rulers of Sudan
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