Chapter 16
Stone slab covered in Greek and Egyptian writing
Rosetta Stone
Egypt
Cairo
Highest peak in Western Africa
Mount Cameroon
Africa's easternmost peninsula
World's fourth largest island
Madagascar
Cursive form of hieroglyphics
demotic script
Sudan
Khartoum
Gulf that runs along the southern coast of Western Africa
Gulf of Guinea
Main part of the East African Rift System
Great Rift Valley
dry plain that covers most of the country of Botswana
Kalahari Desert
Kingdom that was located in modern day Sudan
Kingdom of Kush
Libya
Tripoli
The world's deepest river
Congo River
grassland that is home to one of the largest migrations of land animals
Serengeti Plain
Southern Africa's main mountain range
Drakensberg Mountains
Africa's first Christian Kingdom
Morocco
Rabat
most widely spoken African language
Swahili
Two tributaries of the Nile River
White Nile and Blue Nile
Large waterfall located between Zambia and Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls
first of the great trading empires in Western Africa
Ghana Empire
Tunisia
Tunis
people group who spread their language to Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa
Bantu
Africa's largest lake
Lake Victoria
most well known Bantu groups in Southern Africa
Zulu