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What is the highest mountain in Africa?
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Mount Kilimanjaro
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What are the names of the deserts in North and in South Africa?
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North=The Sahara
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Rift Valleys
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The trough or trench that forms when a thinning strip of the Earth's crust sinks between two parallel fault lines.
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Mountain chain in the North West of Africa
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Atlas mts.
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Most of south Africa's population can be found in what state?
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Nigeria
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What is the lingua francae of Africa
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Swahili
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What are the two largest religions of Africa?
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Christianity and Islam
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What is the major waterfall in Africa and where is it located?
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Victoria falls on the Zambezi
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What was the major trade area of Africa?
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Timbuktu
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What is one of the oldest known Christian religions and where is it located?
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Coptic church, Ethiopia
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Who were the first to travel around Africa?
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the Portuguese
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who were the first to colonize Africa?
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The Dutch
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In what year was Africa divided up?
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1880's
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What is the capitol of Nigeria?
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Abuja
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What is the biggest city in Sub-Africa and where is it located?
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Lagos, Nigeria
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Who was the first president of South Africa?
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Nelson Mandela
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What one State in Africa was not taken over by Europeans?
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Ethiopia
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Which African state can be called a 'failed state'?
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Somalia
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What is the main religion of East Africa?
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Islam
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What are the main languages of West Africa?
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English and French
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The Sharia Law can be found in what book?
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The Koran
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What is the Capitol of Liberia?
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Monrovia
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What states capitol is named for President James Monroe?
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Monrovia, Liberia
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What where the Dutch called who had lived in Africa for a long time.
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Boers
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Where is the home of Osama Bin Laden?
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Yemen
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What is the longest river in the world?
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The Nile
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Where is it believed 'high' civilization began?
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Mesopotamia
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What is the main language of Iran?
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Farsi
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What is the main language of Israel?
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Hebrew
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What is the main language of Niger
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French
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What are the two main types of Islam?
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Sunni and Shiite
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Who is the founder of Islam?
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Mohammad
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Who is known as the "last prophet" of Islam?
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Mohammad
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What is the name of the black box found in Mecca?
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Kaaba
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What is said to be inside the Kaaba?
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A meteorite
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Where is the Dome of the Rock located?
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Jerusalem
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Most of North Africa had been under the rule of what State?
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France
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The Dutch of Africa called the language that they spoke what?
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Afrikaners
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What is the money of Africa called?
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Krugerrand
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Populations in this region tend to be located around what?
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water
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The Nile river is also called the what?
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Exotic River
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Arab refers to what?
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Arabic speaking
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Which Islamic sect believes leadership should be achieved from heritage?
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Shiite
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Which Islamic sect believes leadership should be given to the best man for the job?
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Sunni
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What is the name of the conservative Islam sect in Saudi Arabia?
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Wahhabi
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What is the second most sacred site to Islam and why?
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Medina, this is where Mohammad went to escape
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Many Islamic calendars date from when?
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When Mohammad fled to Medina from Mecca
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What is the third most sacred site of Islam?
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The Dome of the Rock
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Why is the Dome of the Rock sacred to the Jews?
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The plateau under the dome is the Temple of David the only place sacrifices can be made.
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Why is the Dome of the Rock sacred to Islam?
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It is believed it is the site where Mohammad ascended to heaven.
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What is the population of Jerusalem?
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700,000
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Church of the Nativity is located where?
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Bethlehem
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When the Ottoman Empire fell it became what?
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Turkey
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Who was the leader of Turkey after its fall as the Ottoman Empire?
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Atatürk
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Istanbul was once called what?
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Constantinople
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Constantinople was named after whom?
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Emperor Constantin
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Turkey has two parts, what are they?
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Asian Turkey, European Turkey
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Where is most of the oil of the Middle East Located?
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Persian Gulf
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The Arabian Peninsula consists of what countries?
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Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman
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What sect of Islam has the largest population?
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Sunni
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What state has the highest recorded temperature in the world?
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Libya
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Why were the pyramids of Egypt built to the West?
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The sun sets in the west and is a symbol of death.
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What group of people in West Asia are known as a stateless-nation?
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Kurds
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What is the capitol of Jordan?
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Amman
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What state in the Middle East at one time was very Westernized and lived in harmony with each other?
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Lebanon
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What city was once known as the "Paris of the Middle East" and where was it located?
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Beirut, Lebanon
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What is the current capitol of Turkey and what was it before?
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Ankara, Constantinople
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What city is located on the border between Europe and Asia?
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Istanbul
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Throughout most of history Iran was known as what?
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Persia
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What is the largest lake in the world?
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Caspian Sea
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What state in West Asia is known as a Buffer-state?
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Afghanistan
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What were the continents called when they where one massive shape?
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Pangaea
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What were the continents called when they were beginning to break apart?
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Gondwanaland
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What type of environment surrounds the Nile river?
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Desert
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What was the last European country to give up their colonies?
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Belgium
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Where is Kenya located?
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East Africa
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What is the big resource of Nigeria?
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Oil
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When was modern day Israel created?
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1948
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What is the youngest large religion in the world?
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Islam
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What is the capitol of Israel?
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Jerusalem
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Endemic
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a disease that infects many people in a kind of equilibrium, without causing rapid and widespread death
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epidemic
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When a disease outbreak has local or regional dimensions
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pandemic
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When a disease spreads worldwide
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Land tenure
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refers to the way people own, occupy, and use land
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land alienation
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the expropriation of land by Europeans
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two-thirds of sub africas population depends on what for its livelihood?
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Farming
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Trade between the desert communities and the forest communities is known as
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regional complementarity
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What is the oldest sub African state that we know anything about?
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Ghana
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What state is centered on Timbuktu?
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Mali
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The great ? migration resulted in the formation of the powerful ? Empire in the nineteenth century.
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Bantu, Zulu
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What was the name of the notorious Arab slave trade market?
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Zanzibar
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What is the name of one of the first European settlements in Southern most Africa? Who settled it?
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Cape Town, the Dutch
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What was the name of the conference that separated Africa?
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Berlin Conference
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Who lead the reign of terror that came to be Africa's most severe demographic disaster?
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King Leopold
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When did the Belgium Congo achieve independence?
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1960
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What Europeans dominated most of East and Southern Africa?
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British
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Where can the Yoruba people be found?
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Nigeria
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Formal sector
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Government control, and regulations affecting civil service, business, industry and workers.
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informal sectors
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peopled by rural immigrants, who also work as servants, apprentices, construction workers and in countless other menial jobs
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What dominates many African cities: formal or informal sectors?
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Informal sectors
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What state has the only well balanced economy is sub-Africa?
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South Africa
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Botswana's prosperity is based on the sales of what?
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Diamonds
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Namibia's prosperity comes from what?
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Metals
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The basin of what river defines most of equatorial Africa?
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Congo River
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What lake is the southernmost of the East African rift-valley lakes?
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Lake Malawi
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What river system forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe?
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the Zambezi
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What are the two pivotal river systems of the southern region of Africa?
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the Zambezi and the Orange-Vaal
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Africa's richest region materially is what?
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Southern Africa
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Apartheid
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"apartness", term for South Africa's pre-1994 policies of racial separation, a system that produced highly segregated socio-geographical patterns.
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Who won the Boer war?
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The British
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Where was Nelson Mandela imprisoned and for how long?
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Robben Island, 28 years
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who became South Africas second president in 1999?
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Thabo Mbeki
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Who is the current president of South Africa?
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Jacob Zuma
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What area of South Africa is known as the "Diamond Capitol"?
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Kimberley
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What area of South Africa became the "gold capitol" of the world?
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Johannesburg
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What was the Boer capitol of South Africa?
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Pretoria
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What desert is known as the driest desert on earth?
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The Namib
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What is the capitol of Zimbabwe?
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Harare
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Who destroyed prospering Zimbabwe?
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Robert Mugabe
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What caused Angola to fall?
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The Cold War
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What is the capitol of Angola?
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Luanda
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What region are the "great lakes" of Africa located in?
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East Africa
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What are the two popular savannas of East Africa?
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Serengeti, Maasai Mara
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Most of East Africa borders what ocean?
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The Indian Ocean
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What is the dominate state of East Africa?
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Kenya
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What is the capitol of Kenya?
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Nairobi
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In the 1980's who had the highest rate of population growth in the world?
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Kenya
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In Kenya who is known as the father of the nation?
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Jomo Kenyatta
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What brutal dictator took over Uganda in 1971?
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Idi Amin
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What president of Uganda became known as an international hero of the anti-AIDS campaign?
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Yoweri Museveni
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What is the capitol of Ethiopia?
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Adis Abeba
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What body of water did Ethiopia border before the secession of Eritrea?
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The Red Sea
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What separates equatorial Africa from West Africa?
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The Adamawa Highlands
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What region is the most troubled in Sub-Africa?
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Equatorial Africa
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What is the capitol of The Congo?
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Kinshasa
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Where is Darfur located?
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Sudan
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What is the capitol of Gabon?
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Libreville
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What is the capitol of Cameroon?
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Yaounde
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What is the capitol of Congo?
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Brazzaville
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What is the capitol of Equatorial Guinea?
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Malabo
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Who had control of Equatorial Guinea?
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The Spanish
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What area is an Exclave of independent Angola?
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Cabinda
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After its emancipation what area became one of the most dangerous oil producing areas in the world?
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Niger Delta
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Sharia
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Strict Islamic Law
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Nigerians refer to the transition Zone of their county as what?
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Middle Belt
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Who was once known as the Gold Coast?
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Ghana
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President of Ghana
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Kufuor
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Capital of the Ivory Coast
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Abidjan
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Mesopotamia is located Where?
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Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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The Tigris and Euphrates rivers come together in what state?
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Iraq
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Periodic Market
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A system whereby particular village markets are not open every day, but only every third or fourth day or in some other rotation
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Where can you find a periodic market in Sub Africa?
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West Africa south of the sahel or Saharan border.
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Sahel
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Arabic word meaning border
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Africas transition zone lies in its?
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Horn
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Because Islam defines the southern periphery of the African transition zone it is referred to as the what?
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Islamic Front
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The Namib Desert is located in what state?
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Namibia
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Muhammad was born where?
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On the Arabian Peninsula
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What is the worlds largest Muslim State?
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Indonesia
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Mecca is located in what Mnts?
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Jabal Mountains
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When did Muhammad flee to Medina?
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AD 622
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The 5 Pillars of Islam
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1. Repeated expression of the basic creed.
2. The daily prayer 3. 1 month a year fasting (Ramadan) 4. the giving of alms. 5. Pilgrimage to mecca (hajj) |
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What are the 5 types of diffusion?
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Spatial, expansion, relocation, contagious and hierarchical diffusion.
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Religious revivalism
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the resurgence of religious fundamentals
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A leader under Allah is called?
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ayatollah
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ayatollah was a term that replaced what in 1979?
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shah
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mullahs
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teachers of Islamic ways
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When did al-Qaeda emerge?
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After the cold war
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Who was the leader of the Ottoman Empire?
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Suleyman the Magnificent
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Capitol of Iraq
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Baghdad
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Which NASWA country has realized that oil reserve will be depleted and is using their money to focus on the future?
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Dubai
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The largest city by population in NASWA is ?
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Cairo, Egypt
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The second largest city by population in NASWA is?
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Istanbul, Turkey
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The Red Sea meets the Mediterranean Sea via what canal?
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Suez Canal
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What is Egypts Capitol?
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Cairo
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What is the peninsula off Egypt called?
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Sinai Peninsula
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Capitol of Sudan also where the two Niles converge.
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Khartoum
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What is the greatest of all Nile projects?
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The Aswan High Dam
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Egypts substance farmers are known as?
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fellaheen
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The countries of Nothwestern Africa are collectively called?
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the Maghreb
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What are the 3 countries of the Maghreb?
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Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
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What is the capitol of Mali
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Bamako
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What river runs through the core of Iraq?
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Tigris
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What is the chief source of irrigation water in Syria
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Orontes River
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Who controls Syria?
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Israel
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Who colonized Lebanon in the Post-Ottoman era?
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France
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What is the name of the Iran-sponsored terrorist movement that took over Lebanon?
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Hizbollah
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What body of water lies between Golan Heights and Israel?
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Sea of Galilee
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What body of water lies between Jordan and the West Bank of Israel?
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Dead Sea
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What is the Strait between Djibouti and Yemen?
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Bab el Mandeb Strait
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What was the name of the Arabian Peninsula war of 1991?
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The Gulf War
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The world's narrowest and most dangerous strategic strait
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Hormuz Strait
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What strait lies between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman?
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Hormuz Strait
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What desert is thought to be the most deserted on Earth, where is it located?
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Rub al Khali, Saudi Arabia
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What is the Capitol of Saudi Arabia?
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Riyadh
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Who is the King of Saudi Arabia?
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King Abdullah
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Who makes up the United Arab Emirates? (UAE)
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Oman and Yemen
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Who is not a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council?
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Yemen
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The group of tiny islands in the Persian Gulf make up what state?
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Bahrain
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The small peninsula jetting out into the Persian Gulf is known as what state?
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Qatar
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What is the capitol of Qatar?
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Doha
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In the UAE who has the largest amounts of oil and cash reserves?
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Abu Dhabi
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Who is called the Hong Kong of the Arabian Peninsula?
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Dubai
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What is the capitol of Oman?
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Muscat
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What is the name of the peninsula that creates a choke point off Oman?
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Musandam Peninsula
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What body of water lies south of Yemen?
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Gulf of Adan
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What is the capitol of Yemen?
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San'a
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What states are known as the Empire states?
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Turkey and Iran
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Turkey is dominated by what Islamic sect?
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Sunni
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Turkey is trying to negotiate entry into what?
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The European Union
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What is the name of the Island south of Turkey in the Mediterranean sea?
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Cyprus
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What is the name of the body of water between European and asian Turkey?
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Sea of Marmara
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What are the names of the mountains in the East and in the North of Iran?
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East= Zagros Mts.
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nomadism is especially associated with what realm?
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Iran
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Capitol of Iran
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Tehran
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Saddam Hussein is from where?
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Iraq
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Central Asia is known as
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Turkestan
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What is the most westernized state of the maghreb?
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Tunisia
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Who was the Emperor of Ethiopia in the 1930's?
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Haile Selassie
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Haile Selassie's heritage can be dated back to whom?
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Solomon of the Old testement
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What type of sector has people that set up tents to sell their own goods?
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Informal sector
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Large Indian population can be found in what part of Africa?
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South east
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What is the famous township of south Africa?
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Soweto
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The townships of South Africa did what?
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Segregated blacks and indians from whites
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In Spanish Liberia means
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Free
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What desert accounts for over half of Israels land area?
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Negev
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What is the name of the 12 caliph of which one disappeared?
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Imam
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What is the name of the wall in Jerusalem
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the wailing or western wall
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Who is the leader of Libya?
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Col Gaddafi
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The Berber people can be found where?
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North Africa
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Where is Carthage located? What famous person is from there?
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Tunisia, Hannibal
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What type of empire can be found in Carthage?
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Phoenician
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Gaddafi was a leader in what state?
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Libya
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Noah's ark was believed to be found where?
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Mount Ararat in Turkey
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