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An ancient Egyptian form of writing.
What is Hieroglyphics?
The world and Africa's longest river.
What is the Nile?
Mountain range in northwest of Africa.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
This country has an upper and a lower but not in the order that we would think.
What is Egypt?
His body was buried in England and his heart in Africa.
Who is Dr. David Livingstone?
This country was formed in 1822 as a homeland for freed slaves.
What is Liberia?
A plant used to make baskets, sandals, furniture and paper.
What is papyrus?
The source of the Nile River is this.
What is Lake Victoria?
Africa's highest peak.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
This country has 2 seasons, hot and dry.
What is Egypt?
If you wore this, it was believed one was taking on the identity of it.
What are masks?
They are nomadic Arabs that live in desert regions that travel with their flocks following grazing areas.
What are Bedouins?
The process of preserving dead bodies
What is mummification?
This is Africa's second longest river.
What is the Congo River?
A large desert in northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This rift starts at the northern part of Egypt and runs down into Tanzania and is 4,500 miles long.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
Believing in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
A waterfall or rapid, or something your grandma may have removed from her eyes.
What is a cataract?
A title given to the 2nd in command in Egypt.
What is vizier?
A dry riverbed.
What is a wadi?
Very dry grasslands with few trees, located near deserts.
What are steppes?
A person who draws maps is called this.
What is a cartographer?
A mixture of Arabic, Persian, Indian and native African languages.
What is Swahili?
A ruling family.
What is a dynasty?
This sea is at the northern part of Africa, specifically Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These are located in both western and central Africa and receive more than 100 inches of rain per year.
What are rain forests?
This country was responsible for the colonization of Africa.
What is Britain?
While Batman may wear one, he would not wear this specific one.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?