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55 Cards in this Set
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Cairo |
Located in Eygpt, Capital of Eygpt |
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Iran |
Located between Iraq and Afghanistan |
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Mecca |
Major city in Saudi Arabia |
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Horn of Africa |
A peninsula in Africa |
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Atlas Mountains |
A mountain that stretches across nothwestern Africa separating the Atlantic and the Mediterranean coastline from Sahara Desert |
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Indian Ocean |
Third largest in oceanic divisions. Located in the middle surrounding Africa, Asia, and the western part of Australia |
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Tanzania |
An East African country that has vast wilderness areas. Located under Kenya and above Mozambique |
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Mali |
Located above Burkina Faso and diagnol from Algeria. Its a landlocked country |
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Niger |
Landlocked country. Named after the Niger River. Located between Mali and Chad |
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Algeria |
Mediterranean coastline and Sahara Desert inland. Located between Morocco and Tunisia |
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Zimbabwe |
Landlocked country in Southern Africa. Located diagnol from Mozambique and Botswana |
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Tangier |
Large city in Morocco. Gateway between Europe and Africa |
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Tigris-Euphrates River |
Major river system in Africa. Starts in Turkey, goes through Syria, through Iraq, and into the Persian Gulf |
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Mediterranean Sea |
Sea that connects to the Atlantic Ocean. Located between Europe and Africa |
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Istanbul |
Major city in Turkey |
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Mozambique |
Located to the right of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Know for long Indian Ocean coastline |
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Libya |
Located between Algeria/Tunisia and Eygpt. Bordered by the Mediterranean Sea |
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Sahara |
Largest hot desert and third largest desert. Located around the northeastern countries of Africa |
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Afghanistan |
Landlocked country. Diagnol from Pakistan and Tajikistan. |
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Darfur |
A region in Western Sudan |
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Megacity |
A very large city usually over 10 million people |
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Cultural hearth |
A place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication of plants and animals |
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Five Pillars |
Five rules that faith (usually Islamic) should follow |
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Perforated state |
A state that whose territory is completely surrounded by another state |
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Forward capital |
A relocated capital city usually because of economic or strategic reasons |
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Stateless nation |
Political term for ethnic group or a nation that doesnt possess its own state |
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Genocide |
Mass killing of an ethnic group |
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Sharia |
A law that prescribes both religious and secular duties and has retibutive penalties for lawbreaking |
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Aparthied |
A system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race |
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Choke point |
A point of blockage |
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Carrying capacity |
The number of people that can be sustained in an environment |
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Islam |
Religion of Muslims |
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Berlin Conference |
It regulated European colonization and trade in Africa |
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Buffer state |
A neutral country that was built to ease tensions between two hostile countries |
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Arab Spring |
A protest against oppressive regimes and low standard of living |
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Proxy War |
A war that instigates between two major powers that doesnt become involved |
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Russified |
When a group gives up their culture to become Russians |
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Pandemic disease |
An outbreak that affects the world |
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Failed state |
A state whose political or economic system has become so weak that there is no leader |
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Rift valley |
An elogated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earths surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems |
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Assimilation |
The process of taking in information or ideas |
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Nelson Mandela |
Was the south african president, a philanthropist, and an anti-aparthied revolutionary. People thought he was killed but turns out he was alive the whole time |
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Shi'ites |
An adherent of the Shia branch of Islam |
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Muhammad |
Founder of Islam |
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
Former president of Liberia. |
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Kurds |
An Iranian ethnic group of the Middle East |
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Palestinians |
Comprised of the modern descents of Jews and Samaritans |
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Berbers |
Indiginous people in North Africa |
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Alfred Thayer Mahan |
Was an American naval officer and historian |
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Muslim |
A follower of the religion of Islam |
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Muhammad Bouazizi |
Was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire |
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Houthis |
An islamic religious-political-armed movement |
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ISIS/ISIL |
An extremist militant group that rules by Wahhabi/Salafi law |
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Hutu/Tutsi |
A cultural issue in Rawanda that caused genocides |
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Hosni Mubarak |
Former Egypt military and political leader |
