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Wh Ch 6 Flashcards

1
Q

Nickname for africa

A

Dark Continent

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2
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world’s largest desert

A

sahara

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3
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world’s 2nd largest desert

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Kalahari Desert

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4
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vast tracts of land characterized by wet and dry seasons

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Savannah

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5
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Africa’s longest mountain range

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Atlas Mountains

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6
Q

Largest mountain in africa

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Mount Kilimanjaro

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7
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Longest river in the world

A

Nile

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8
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Longest lake in the world

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Lake Tanganyika

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9
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Africas largest lake

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Lake Victoria

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10
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the largest rift in
the earth’s surface

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great rift valley

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11
Q

the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior

A

Cush

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12
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over-came Egypt and began a period of Sudanese rule over Egypt

A

Piankhi

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13
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Nicknames for cush

A

Nubia or Ethiopia

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14
Q

led the first recorded african to the gospel

A

Philip

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15
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first african christian

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Ethiopian eunuch

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16
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one of the most mountainous regions of Africa and the location of modern Ethiopia

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sabaea

17
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other name for sabaea

A

Abyssinia

18
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Two teens that basically created The Ethiopian Orthodox Church

A

Edesius and Frumentius

19
Q

became important and influential centers of Christianity

A

Alexandria in Egypt, Cyrene in Libya, and Carthage

20
Q

man who was compelled by the Romans to carry the cross for Jesus

A

simon of cyrene

21
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martyred for the faith

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Tertullian and Cyprian

22
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createrd shepeard of tender youth

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Clement of Alexandria

23
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shepeard of tender youth

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oldest known hym

24
Q

defended diety of christ

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Athanasius

25
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defended salvation through faith

A

Augustine of Hippo

26
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ruled by african tribal chiefs along the western coast of the continent near the Niger River, dominated trade across the Sahara between A.D. 300 and 1200.

A

Ghana Empire

27
Q

dominated most of what is now Gambia, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal from about A.D. 1200 until A.D. 1500

A

Mali

28
Q

The greatest ruler of the Mali Empire

A

mansa musa

29
Q

important trading center

A

timbuktu

30
Q

which dominated West Africa in the late 1400s and throughout the 1500s

A

songhai

31
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possessed more power and
wealth than any other west African rulers.

A

Askia the Great

32
Q

arose along the southern coast of present-day Nigeria

A

benin

33
Q

extended the boundaries of the kingdom in the 1400s, is remembered in oral histories as the greatest ruler of Benin

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King ewuare

34
Q

the largest central African kingdom from the 1400s until the 1700s

A

Kingdom of the Kongo

35
Q

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

A

aminism

WFBA 10th grade terms (55 decks)

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