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What was Africa known as because it remained an unexplored mystery until the 19th century?

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the Dark Continent

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What is the world’s largest desert which spreads over much of northern Africa?

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Sahara

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About how much of the African continent is covered with desert?

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2/5

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What is the desert that spans much of southern Africa?

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Kalahari Desert

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What are vast tracts of land characterized by wet and dry seasons which lie between the deserts and the rain forests?

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savannas

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What is Africa’s longest mountain range?

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Atlas Mountains

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What is Africa’s tallest mountain that is the source of the Nile River?

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Mount Kilimanjaro

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What is the world’s longest river?

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Nile River

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What is Africa’s longest lake that is the source of the Nile River?

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Lake Victoria

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What is the world’s longest and second deepest lake that is a source of water for the Congo River?

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Lake Tanganyika

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What is the largest rift in the earth’s system?

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Great Rift Valley

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Who were the three sons of Ham who migrated from Babel to Africa?

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Mizraim, Phut, and Cush

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Where did Phut’s descendants probably settle?

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in the region now occupied by the Sahara Desert

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What are the three names that the Scripture calls the area that was settled by Phut’s descendants?

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Phut, Put, and Libya

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What is the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior?

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Kingdom of Cush

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Who was a Cushite warrior who overcame Egypt and began a period of Sudanese rule over Egypt?

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Piankhi

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What was Cush often called in ancient times?

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Nubia or Ethiopia

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What was the Kingdom of Cush located?

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north and west of modern-day Ethiopia

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Who was a Cushite who helped the prophet Jeremiah when he was cast into prison by King Zedekiah of Judah?

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Ebed-melech

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Who was the first African on record to become a Christian who is perhaps the most famous Cushite in world history?

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the unnamed Ethiopian eunuch

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What was one of the most mountainous regions of Africa and the location of modern Ethiopia?

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Sabaea

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What was Sabaea formerly known as?

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Abyssinia, Seba, and the Kingdom of Aksum

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Who was the ruler who brought gold, precious stones, and costly spices as tribute to King Soloman?

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Queen of Sheba

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Who were the two Christian youths from Rome who were shipwrecked, taken to Ethiopia as slaves, but were able to start a form of Christianity in the Kingdom of Aksum?

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Edesius and Frumenius

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Who was the first bishop of the Ethiopian Christian Church?

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Frumentius

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Who was remembered as the man who was compelled by the Romans to carry the cross for Jesus?

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Simon of Cyrene

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Who wrote the oldest surviving Christian hymn?

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Clement of Alexandria

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What is the oldest surviving Christian hymn?

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“Shepherd of Tender Youth”

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Who was the eloquent and impassioned spokesman for the deity of Christ and doctrine of the Trinity at the Counsil of Nicaea?

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Athanasius of Alexandria

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Who championed the biblical emphasis of salvation by grace alone and later inspired the Protestant Reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin?

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Augustine of Hippo

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What was the people group who were located along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that is most likely modern Somalia and traded extensively with the Egyptains?

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Punt

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Which African empire was ruled by African tribal chiefs along the western coast of the continent near the Niger River and dominated trade across the Sahara between A.D. 300 to 1200?

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Ghana Empire

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Which African empire follow the fall of the Ghana Empire?

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Mali Empire

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Who was the greatest ruler of the Mali Empire?

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Mansa Musa

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What was a famous center for learning and culture under the Mali Empire?

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Timbuktu

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What was the third great African kingdom which dominated West Africa in the late 1400s and throughout the 1500s?

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Songhai Empire

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Who was one of the most famous rulers of the Songhai Empire who possessed more power and wealth than any other west African rulers?

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Askia the Great

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Which African Kingdom arose along the southern coast of present day Nigeria during the 1200s?

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Kingdom of Benin

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Who is remembered in oral histories as the greatest ruler of Benin?

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King Ewuare

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What was the largest central African kingdom from the 1400s until the 1700s?

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Kingdom of the Kongo

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What was a city in the modern country of Zimbabwe?

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Zimbabwe

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What is the belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits?

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animism

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What was the group that dominated North Africa by the A.D. 700s?

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Arabic-speaking Muslims

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Who were the two great early church fathers in the city of Carthage who were martyred for their faith?

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Tertullian and Cyprian

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Who were two great theologians from the city of Alexandria?

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Clement and Origen

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