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what is the 2nd largest continent?

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Africa

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what is africa’s population?

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over 1.2 billion

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Why was Africa called the dark Continent?

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because so little was known about the uncharted land

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who discovered Africa’s great natural resources?

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David Livingstone

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what separates Africa and Asia?

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Suez canal

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what European nations had colonies in Africa?

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Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, and Portugal

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what is Africa’s highest peaks?

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Mt Kilimanjaro and Mnt. Kenya

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what is the world’s largest desert?

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Sahara

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what is the world’s long­est river?

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Nile

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what is the area where most ‘big game’ animals live?

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Serengeti Plain

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what are the three largest lakes?

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Victoria, Tanganyika and Nyasa

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what is Africa’s largest lake and the world’s second largest body of freshwater?

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Lake Victoria

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what is the world’s longest freshwater lake?

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Lake Tanganyika

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what separates Africa and Europe?

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Strait of Gibraltar

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what is the continent’s most dramatic geographic feature?

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Eastern Rift System

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What is the four basic climate and vegetation zones?

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Rainforest, savanna, desert, highland

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what are the five nations in Saharan Africa?

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Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

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what is the earliest civilization in africa?

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Egypt

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what is the largest city in Africa, serves as the capital of egypt?

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Cairo

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what are the descendants of Ham, Noah’s son called?

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Hamitic

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what is the state religion in egypt?

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Islam

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what is another name for farmers?

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Fellahin

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23
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what are open air markets?

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Bazzars

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what provides year round irrigation in egypt?

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Aswan High Dam

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what is the name given after the Semites, descendants of Noah’s son Shem?
Semitic
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who was Egypt’s first president?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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what is Libya’s most productive farmland?
Gefara Plain
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what is known as the West?
Maghreb
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what are the lands west of Egypt?
Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
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what is Libya's capital and largest city?
Tripoli
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what is the state religion of Libya?
Islam
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who deposed the Libyan pro-Western king and established a military dictatorship?
Muammar Qaddafi
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what are the most important export products in the west?
oil, natural gas, and phosphates-
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what is the largest country in Africa?
Algeria
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what is the disputed desert country along the Atlantic coast?
Western Sahara
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what 5 countries that occupy the Sahel?
Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan
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what was the newest nation as of July 2011?
South Sudan
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what are the three main climates in Sudan?
Desert, steppe, savanna
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what is the world’s largest swamp?
Sudd
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what are the ancient Egyptians called?
Nubia
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who is the first recorded African Christian?
Ethiopian eunuch
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what are the countries west of Sudan?
Chad, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania
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what river feeds Lake Chad; in Niger and Mali?
Chari River
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what River cuts across the Nigerian plateau and plunges over waterfalls before reaching the Gulf of Guinea?
Niger River
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what river forms the southern border as it flows toward the Atlantic Ocean?
Senegal river
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what became Africa’s first and greatest Christian kingdom?
Aksum
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who was the evangelical Christian, led England’s movement to abolish slavery, by force?
William Wilberforce
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who was at one time one of the most notorious slave traders in West Africa?
John Newton
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what is the largest river system in Western Africa?
Niger River
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what are the Countries of Western Africa?
Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria
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what is the southwest?
Yoruba
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what is the south-east?
Ibo
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what is the north?
Hausa and Fulani
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what is Nigeria’s first capital?
Lagos
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who became the first black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?
Samuel Adjai Crowther
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what became the first African nation south of the Sahara to achieve independence from a colonial power?
Ghana
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who was Ghana’s first president?
Kwame Nkrumah
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what is the modern capital of Sierra Leone?
Freetown
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who are the 2 Black American missionaries?
Lott Carey & Colin Teague
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what river flows northward through the geographic center of Africa, turning west and then south as it crosses the broad Congo basin on its way to the Atlantic Ocean?
Congo River
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what is one of the largest waterfalls in volume?
Boyoma Falls
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what is the former name if the DRC?
Zaire
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who emerged as the victor and established a dictatorship?
Joseph Mobutu
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what is the official language of the DRC?
French
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who traced the Congo of its source in 1877?
Henry M. Stanley
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what is the capital and largest city in the DRC?
Kinshasa
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what is the unofficial language of the DRC?
Bantu
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what is a mixture of catholicism and pagan religions?
Kimbanguism
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what countries occupy the Horn of Africa?
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia
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what lies between the Rift System and the Indian Ocean?
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Tanzania
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who began a program of modernization in Ethiopia to increase the prosperity and security of his people?
Haile Selassie I
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what is the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
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who instituted economic reforms that transformed Tanzania into a Communist state?
Julius Nyerere
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what is called “the Smoke that Thunders”?
Victoria Falls
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what is the Southern Africa’s largest desert region?
Kalahari
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what is the wealthiest and most developed nation in Africa?
Republic of South Africa
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what are known as Dutch farmers?
Boers
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what was the war when The Boers and the British took up arms against each other called?
Boer War
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what is the new name of the Boers?
Afrikaners
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what was the event where Boers migrated northeast of the Orange River, pushing the Bantu people into the hills?
Great Trek
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what is the program of racial segregation, divided the South Africans into racial groups—white, black, Indians, and people of mixed ancestry?
Apartheid
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who was south africa’s first black president?
Nelson Mandela
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what was the legislative capital of south africa?
Cape Town
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what is the industrial and mining center in the state of Transvaal?
Johannesburg
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what is the administrative capital of south africa?
Pretoria
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what is the judicial capital of south africa?
Transvaal
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what are the Five islands of south africa?
Cape Verde, Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, and Mauritius
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what is located off the west coast of Africa?
Cape Verde islands
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what is the group of islands off the east coast of Africa, was settled by the French before it became a British colony?
Seychelles
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what lies east of Africa in the Mozambique Channel and includes several islands?
Comoros
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what is the fourth largest island in the world?
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what is named for the largest of the islands that bear its name?
Mauritius

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