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Old World History & Geography Chapter 9 Test

Terms in this set (62)

Capital Egypt
Cairo
Capital Sudan
Khartoum
Capital Democratic Republic of Congo
Kinshasa
Capital Ethiopia
Addis Abba
Capital Kenya
Niarobi
Capital Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
Capital South Africa
Capetown, Pretoria
Location of Sahara
Stretches from the east to the west coast of Northern Africa
Location of Kalahari
Southern Africa
Location of Atlas Mountains
Along the northwestern coast
Location of Kiliminjaro
Kenya
World's second largest continent
Africa
World's longest river
Nile
World's largest desert
Sahara
Africa's highest mountain
Mt.Kilimanjaro
Cape of Good Hope
A small peninsula at the southwestern tip of the continent
Drakensberg Mountains
In southeastern Africa, they form the only significant mountain range in Africa
Horn of Africa
A large peninsula that resembles the horn of a rhinoceros in the eastern part of Tropical Africa
Nasser
The Egyptian president who took over the Suez Canal by force
Anwar Sadat
The Egyptian president who was the first head of an Arab state to make peace with Israel
Emperor Haile Selassie I
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
Nyerere
Leader who brought Communism to Tanzania
General Joseph Mobutu
Leader who changed the name of his country to Zaire; when he was overthrown it became the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethiopia
African nation that has been independent for over 2000 years
Sudan
Largest country in Africa
Sudd
World's largest Swamp
Cairo
Largest city in Africa
Aswan High Dam
Structure that was built to control flooding along the Nile
Barbary Coast
The area along the Mediterranean Sea that was famous for its fierce pirates
Lake Victoria
The world's second largest freshwater lake and major source of the Nile River
Lake Tanganyika
The world's longest and second deepest freshwater lake in the world
Suez Canal
The man-made waterway that connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
Serengeti National Park
The large national park that is located in Tanzania
Pygmies
The very short people that descended from the original inhabitants of the Democratic Republic of Congo and still roam the forests
Boers
The Dutch farmers of South Africa that were later called Afrikaners
Commonwealth of Nations
The organization that consists of Great Britain and 52 former British colonies
Egypt
The Arab nation that was the first to make peace with Israel
What are 3 or more of modern Africa's needs?
The gospel, food, shelter, education, stable governments,
The name of the missionary-explorer that explored the middle parts of Africa
David Livingstone
Resources European explorers discovered in Africa
Gold
Diamonds
Ivory
The first 2 nations independent from European colonies
Ethiopia (independent for about 2 thousand years)
Liberia (Founded by an American group as a home for free black slaves)
Which European Nations ruled over most of Africa by 1914
Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Belgium
When did the Europeans begin to give the African nations their independence
After World WarII
Another country compares to the Sahara desert in size
United States of America
The 10 African nations within the Sahara Desert
Morocco Libya
Mauritania Niger
Mali Chad
Algeria Egypt
Tunisia Sudan
Mountain where most precipitation in the Sahara Desert
Atlas Mountains
It transforms a steppe into a desert within a year in the Sahara
drought in the Sahara
Area of North Africa known for it's fierce pirates
Barbary Coast
Historically Egypt was under the domination of what?
1. Alexander the Great
2. Rome
3. Arabs with mostly the Muslim religion
Percent of Egyptians that can read and write
Less than 50%
Capital of Egypt
Cairo
The largest city in Africa
Cairo
Built in 1970 to control annual floods in Egypt
Aswan High Dam
The location of the Suez Canal
Egypt
Which two bodies of water does the Suez Canal connect
Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
What UNIQUE role did Egypt play with Israel in 1979
The first Arab nation to make peace with Israel
The Egyptian President accomplished peace with Israel
Anwar Sadat
The largest country in Africa
The republic of Sudan
The capital of the Sudan
Khartoum (kartoom)
The largest swamp in the world
Sudd (sud) located in Sudan
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