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Africa study sheet Flashcards

1
Q

what is the western point of the Arab world?

A

Maghreb

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2
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what are the lands west of Egypt?

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Morocco, tunisia, algeria, libya

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3
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what is the nomadic tribe of the French Sahel?

A

Tuaregs

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4
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what was a program of racial segregation?

A

Apartheid

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5
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what is the world’s largest swamp?

A

Sudd

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6
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who were the original inhabitants of the Maghreb?

A

Berbers

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7
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who became kenya’s first president?

A

Jomo kenyatta

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7
Q

what is the largest freshwater lake?

A

Lake Victoria

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8
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what is the large peninsula that resembles the horn of a rhino

A

Horn of Africa

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9
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who was Ghana’s first president?

A

Nkrumah

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10
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what separates Madagascar from africa?

A

Mozambique channel

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11
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what is Southern Africa’s largest desert region?

A

Kalahari

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12
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what is the small peninsula at the southwestern tip of the continent?

A

Cape of good hope

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13
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who was the first president of south africa?

A

Nelson mandela

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14
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what are the 6 most important rivers?

A

Congo, orange, nile, niger, limpopo, Zambezi

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14
Q

who traced the Congo to its source in 1877?

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Henry M. Stanley

15
Q

what is the world’s longest freshwater lake?

A

Tanganyika

16
Q

what are open-air markets?

A

Bazaraazs

17
Q

who deposed the Libyan pro-Western king and established a military dictatorship?

A

Qaddafi

18
Q

what is the enormous fracture in the earth’s surface begins in Asia’s Jordan River valley, continues beneath the Red Sea, and cuts through Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique?

A

Great Rift Valley

19
Q

what is the most common disease in africa?

A

Malaria

20
Q

what is the 2nd highest peak in africa?

A

Mnt. Kenya

21
Q

what is the pagan tribal belief that natural objects are inhabited by spirits?

A

Animism

22
Q

who became the first bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church?

A

Frumentius

23
Q

who became the first black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?

A

Samuel Crowther

24
Q

What is the new name for the Boers?

A

Afrikaners

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