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A depression of the land below sea level where water collects or rivers pass through.
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What is a Basin?
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The world's longerst river flowing >4,000 miles through Uganda, Sudan, & Egypt emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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What is the Nile River?
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Landform made by continental plates separating forming huge cracks in the crust and sinking to form long, thin valleys.
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What is the Rift Valley?
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Africa's highest mountain formed of a dormant volcano, with a galciated peak which is rapidly receding due to global warming.
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What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
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A steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top.
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What is an Escarpment?
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The largest desert in the world, stretching 3,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Red Sea 1,200 miles N-S; 20% Sand & 80% Sahel; Arabic for "desert"
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What is the Sahara Desert?
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Huge stores of underground water; water table
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What is an Aquifer?
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A place in the desert where water reaches the surface through vents from an aquifer supporting vegetation & wildlife & nomads of the desert.
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What is an Oasis?
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A grassland plain of Northern Tanzania w/ dry climate and hard soil preventing tree growth and crops. Home of ____?____ National Park.
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What is the Serengeti Plain?
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The upper level of the Rain Forest made of layers of interlapping branches >150ft.
above ground, a habitat for birds, monkeys, & flying foxes. |
What is the Canopy?
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A region containign most of Nigeria's oil which has cost the lives of 100's w/ recent oil leaks & explosions
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What is the Niger Delta?
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A word meaning "Shore of the desert" in Arabic; a narrow band of dry grassland crossing E. to W. across the Southern edge of Sahara.
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What is the Sahel?
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An expansion of dry conditions into moist areas next to deserts. Cyclical process but is speeded up by people.
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What is Desertification?
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Project completed in 1970 creating Lake Nasser between Egypt & Sudan. Gives farmers 50% more farmland, a regular supply of water & controls flooding of the Nile River. Assists in irrigation of crops yeilding 2-3 harvests per year. Prevents droughts & floods.
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What is the Aswan High Dam?
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Sediment deposited by rivers on the banks of the rivers, very fertile for farming.
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What is Silt?
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A gorge where Louis Leakey (1971) found a large number of prehistoric human remains called Homo habilis; 1st humans to make stone tools 2 million yrs. ago.
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What is Olduvai Gorge?
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Emerged in Ethiopia (AD100s) as an important trade center on the Red Sea & Indian Ocean; traded w/ Egypt & Eastern Roman Empire
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Where was Aksum?
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Between 1884-85, 14 European nations met to lay down rules for dividing Africa without inviting African countries rulers to attend the conference, even though it directly concerned African land & peoples. By 1914, only Liberia & Ethiopia remained independent & free of Colonial control. Lands were divided w/o regard for ethnic and cultural boundaries causing much of the political violence & ethnic conflicts in Africa in the 20th C.
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What was the Berlin Conference?
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Crops grown for direct sale such as coffee, tea & sugar.
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What are Cash Crops?
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East African ethnic group that lives on the grasslands of the Rift Valley of Kenya & Tanzania. Dress in clothes of calf-skin/buffalo hides; make intricat beadwork & jewelry.
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Who are the Masai?
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An uncontrollable outbreak of disease affecting a large population over a wide geographic area. Ex. AIDS, Plague.
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What is a Pandemic?
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An ancient African city which legend says was founded by a Phoenician Queen
in 814B.C. on a peninsula on the Gulf of Tunis; Became a great trade & commercial city of Mediterranean Sea. |
Where was Carthage?
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Monotheistic religion based on teachings of the prophet Mohammed; Brought to N. Africa by Muslim invaders in A.D. 632.
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What is Islam?
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Algerian music developed in 1920s by poor urban children, carefree & centered around topics of youth, fast-paced & westernized in 1982 to communicate Algerian resentment of French Colonizers.
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What is Rai?
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An island off the coast of Senegal which served as one of the busiest ports for exporting slaves during slave trade.
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Where is Gorce Island?
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A society where people rely on family lineages to govern themselves rather than an elected government or monarch. They work through differences to share power.
Ex. the Igbo of SE Nigeria |
What is a Stateless Society?
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A culture from Ghana known for their weaving of colorful Asasia (Kente Cloth)only worn by Royalty; also made masks & carved wooden stools which symbolize unity between ancestral spirits & living members of a family.
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Who were the Ashanti?
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Mass migration of Bantu people southward throughout Africa spreading their language & culture.
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What was Bantu Migration?
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A Belgian King who developed an interest in the Congo after exploration in 1870s ;
wanted to open African Interior to European Trade along Congo River. He controlled the are by 1884, & after the Berlin Conference it was made a Congo Free State. He used forced labor to gather rubber, palm oils, ivory & other resources. |
Who was King Leopold II?
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The leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1967-1997 brought countries businesses under national control & took kickbacks to profit from reorganization.
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Who was Mobutu Sese Seko?
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African sculpture of the Fang Society who lived in Gabon, S. Cameroon & Equatorial Guinea. Featured carved wooden masks, painted white with facial features outlined in black. Also carved boxes that held skulls & bones of deceased ancestors; bones are decorated w/ figures to protect them.
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What is Fang Sculpture?
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Ancient city established by the Shona people around 1000AD in Zimbabwe, 1200-1400 became capital of a thriving gold-trading area.
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Where was Great Zimbabwe?
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After death of Mutota in 1440, the empire extended throughout all of present day Zimbabwe - replacing it.
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What is the Mutapa Empire?
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A complete separation of the races (black & white), banning social contact &establishing segregated schools, hospitals, & neighborhoods.
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What was Apartheid?
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Leader who emerged from 1949 as head of the ANC & led a struggle to end Apartheid but was imprisoned; Apartheid ended in 1989 due to pressures from the world nations. He was released, won election as President in 1994, Democratic legislation passed a new democratic election which guaranteed rights of all citizens by 1996.
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Who was Nelson Mandela?
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