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33 Cards in this Set
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altitude
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the height above sea level
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dormant
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an inactive volcano
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Matterhorn
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mountain climbed by daring mountaineers
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Mont Blanc
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Alps' highest peak
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mountain range
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a long row of mountains
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Mt. Elbrus
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Europe's highest peak
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Mt. Everest
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world's highest peak
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Mt. McKinley
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North America's highest peak
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peak
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the pointed top of a mountain
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sea level
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the level of sea waters
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summit
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the highest peak of a mountain
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
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Africa's highest peak
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Madagascar
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the world's fourth largest island
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Ethiopian Eunuch
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the first recorded African Christian
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Kingdom of Aksum
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Africa's first and greatest Christian Kingdom
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King Lalibela
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carved 10 churches out of solid rock
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Timbuktu
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African city that was a famous center of learning
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Aesop
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Greek slave who invented fables and is believed to have come from Ethiopia
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Robert Moffat
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missionary to Africa who put their language into written form and translated the Bible into it
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David Livingstone
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greatest of all African explorers and one of the most famous explorers in history
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Samuel Crowther
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first black bishop of the Church of England
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Mary Slessor
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missionary to Nigeria who was known as the Queen of the Cannibals
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James Bruce and Mungo Park
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early explorers in Africa
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Suez Canal
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a man-made waterway that separates Africa and Asia
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Dark Continent
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the nickname given to Africa because so little was known about it
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Africa
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the second largest continent
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Victoria Falls
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Africa's largest waterfall
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Congo River
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world's second largest river in the volume of water that it carries
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Liberia
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Africa's first black republic
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Khama
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chief of Botswana that became a Christian and ruled in righteousness for 50 years
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Malaria, Yellow Fever, Sleeping Sickness
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tropical diseases that took a toll on early missionaries and explorers
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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
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What Henry Stanley said to Dr. Livingstone when he found him in Africa
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Ham, Mizraim, Cush, and Phut
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their descendants migrated to Africa after the flood
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