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16 Cards in this Set
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What is the geography of Africa?
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Africa is diverse as it is vast. The northern coast washed by the Mediterranean Sea, is Mountainous for much of its length.
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What is the geography of Africa?
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Africa is diverse as it is vast. The northern coast washed by the Mediterranean Sea, is Mountainous for much of its length.
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What is the greatest desert on earth?
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The Sahara, which stretches from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean
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Where is the Nile located?
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It is located in East Africa and is the heart of ancient Egyptian Civilization.
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Which Sea separates Africa from Asia?
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The Red Sea.
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Which desert acts as a great divide separating the northern coast from the rest of the continent?
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The Sahara.
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South of Egypt, near the junction of the White and Blue Nile, is an area known historically as what?
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Nubia.
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Archaeologists suggest that agriculture may have appeared where first?
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Nubia.
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Stone Age farmers from Nubia may have begun to cultivate local crops such as what?
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Sorghum and millet along the banks of the upper Nile.
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Kushites borrowed what extensively from Egypt?
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Religious beliefs the practice of interring kings in pyramids, and hieroglyphics.
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Kush's economy was probably founded primarily on what?
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Agriculture and animal husbandry,
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Kush supplied what goods from Central and East Africa?
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Ivory, gold, ebony, and slaves.
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Kush was conquered by who?
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Axum
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Axum was a new power located where?
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In the highlands of modern Ethiopia.
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Axum was founded when?
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During the first millennium B.C.E.
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Axum was founded by who?
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Migrants from the kingdom of Saba.
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