World Geography Notes--Africa
What is Africa known as?
"A Continent of Natural Wonders"
What did people call Africa before the late 19th century?
"Dark Continent"
How many times has the Suez Canal been closed?
2 times
What percent of the Western Isle is Muslims of Arab or Berber descent?
99%
What is Bantu?
A language and ethnic group in Africa
What is the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
What were the Boers later named?
Afrikaners
What is the capital of Algeria?
Algiers
Cush (or Kush)
An ancient civilization in Africa. It is often referred to as Nubia and was similar to Ancient Egypt in many aspects including government, culture, and religion
What mountain range rises to the height of 13,000 feet along the northwestern coast?
Atlas Mountains
What nomadic people were the Maghreb known as?
Berbers
Who became the first African American bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?
Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo
What is the capital of South Africa?
Cape Town
What river feeds into Lake Chad?
Chari River
The key river of Central Africa?
Congo River
The Congo river Basin incudes what republics?
Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the Congo, and, Central African Republic
Who were the Boers?
Dutch farmers who settled around Cape Town
What is Africa's most dramatic geographic feature?
Eastern Rift System
What is the largest Rift in the world?
Eastern Rift System
What was the small country that succeeded from Ethiopia leaving it landlocked?
Eritrea
What countries occupy the "Horn of Africa"?
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, And Somalia
The first recorded African Christian
Ethiopian Eunuch
What is the modern capital of Sierra Leone?
Freetown
What is the official language of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
French
Who is known as the "Father of Peace"?
Frumentius
Egypt's first president
Gamal Abdel Nasser
What country became the first African nation south of the Sahara to achieve independence from Britain?
Ghana
Marks the edge of the continent's plateau in Southern Africa
Great Escarpment
What are the mountains that form the edge of the southern African plateau?
Great Escarpment
What is the Eastern Rift System also known as?
Great Rift Valley
Who was the emperor who modernized Ethiopia?
Haile Selassie I
Who was Joseph Mobutu?
He overthrew the gov. in 1965 and became the new dictator and renamed Congo to Zaire
What explorer traced the Congo to its source in 1877?
Henry M. Stanley
The main religion of Egypt
Islam
What is the most dominant religion in Mauritania?
Islam
Who became Kenya's first president?
Jomo Kenyatta
Who was the strong socialist leader that instituted economic reforms that transformed Tanzania into a Communist state in 1967?
Julius Nyerere
Southern Africa's largest desert region
Kalahari Desert
In what capital do the White Nile and the Blue Nile meet?
Khartoum
What is the capital od Sudan?
Khartoum
What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Kinshasa
Who was the first president/dictator of Ghana?
Kwame Nkrumah
What is the capital of Nigeria?
Lagos
What is the second-deepest river in the world?
Lake Tanganyika
What is the world's longest freshwater lake?
Lake Tanganyika
What is Africa's largest lake?
Lake Victoria
What is the world's second largest body of freshwater?
Lake Victoria
Gefara Plain
Libya's most productive farmland
Names of the lands of west Egypt
Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
Who were the two African American missionaries to Liberia?
Lott Carey and Colin Teague
What is the World's fourth largest island?
Madagascar
What was name of the event when the Kikuyu and other hostile tribes massacred 1,700 Africans and about 100 European settlers and missionaries?
Mau Mau Rebellion
What five countries occupy the Sahel?
Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan
A coastal city of East Africa that was an important trade center
Mombasa
What country controls Western Sahara?
Morocco
Western Isle
Morocco, Algeria, and Libya
What is the second highest peak in Africa?
Mount Kenya
What is the highest peak in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro
What Channel separates Madagascar from the southeast coast of the mainland of Africa?
Mozambique Channel
This Colonel overthrew the new king in 1969. He removed all signs of Italian culture and instituted a military dictatorship.
Muammar Qaddafi
Who set up a military dictatorship in Libya?
Muammar Qaddafi
What is the capital of Kenya?
Nairobi
South Africa's first black president
Nelson Mandela
What river and its tributaries form the largest river system in Western Africa?
Niger River
Countries west of Sudan that were known as the "French Sahel"?
Niger, Chad, Mali, and Mauritania
In what country is the Niger River delta found?
Nigeria
What is the world's longest river?
Nile River
List six major river systems in Africa?
Nile, Niger, Congo, Orange, Limpopo, and Zambezi
Who were the Masai?
Nomadic cattle-herding people of what is now Kenya and Tanzania.
What is the world's largest desert?
Sahara Desert
What desert covers most of Northern Africa?
Sahara desert
What river forms the border between Sudan and Mauritania?
Senegal River
What are the countries of Western Africa?
Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria
What is a large savanna in eastern Africa known for its big game animals?
Serengeti Plain
What are the two countries in Western Africa that were settled by free slaves?
Sierra Leone and Liberia
What is Africa's newest nation as of July 2011?
South Sudan
What separates Africa from Europe?
Strait of Gibraltar
What separates Africa from Asia?
Suez Canal
Karnak
The Karnak Temple is a city of temples built over 2,000 years and dedicated to the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu.
What did the Greek historian Herodotus call Egypt?
The gift of the nile
Where does Egypt get a good majority of its income?
Through the Suez Canal
The capital of Libya
Tripoli
What is the capital of Tunisia?
Tunis
What countries lie between the Eastern Rift System and the Indian Ocean?
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Tanzania
Africa's largest waterfall (it is sometimes considered as one of the Seven wonders of the world)
Victoria Falls
What does "Djezirah al-Maghreb" mean"?
Western Isle
A disputed desert country along the Atlantic coast
Western Sahara
What is the capital of Cameron?
Yaoundé
What four tribes control Nigeria?
Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, and Fulani
What was the Democratic Republic of Congo formally known as?
Zaire
What is the Eastern Rift System?
a huge rift in eastern Africa
Belgium Congo
claimed by Belgium and started scramble for Africa
Serengeti National Park
large plain of grasslands, trees, and water in Tanzania where wildlife thrives
Carthage
powerful ancient city-state located in North Africa
What has enabled year-round crops to be grown in Egypt?
the Aswan High Dam
Who founded Cape Town?
the Dutch
Barbary Coast
the Maghreb area was once populated by the Berbers and called by this name known for its fierce pirates a coast in North Africa
The vast marshy area between the White Nile and the Blue Nile, and is the world's largest swamp?
the Sudd
What did the Herodotus call Egypt
the gift of the Nile
