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Look Ahead
100
A region drained by a river system.
What is a basin?
100
The earliest period of human culture, in which people used stone tools.
What is The Stone Age?
100
These African storytellers past down history through music and words.
What is a griot?
100
An early relative.
What is an ancestor?
100
This Egyptian writing system uses picture symbols for meanings or sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
The highest layer in a forest, formed by the treetops
What is a canopy?
200
Walking on two feet.
What is bipedal?
200
In this type of society, two or more groups would cooperate.
What is a stateless society?
200
A large rigid section of the Earth's crust that is in constant montion.
What are tectonic plates?
200
Fertile soil deposited by a river.
What is silt?
300
A 355-foot waterfall on the Zambezi River in South Central Africa.
What is Victoria Falls?
300
Remains of early life preserved in the ground.
What is a fossil?
300
Descent from one parent back several generations.
What is lineage?
300
The belief that spirits exist in animals, plants, natural forces and ancestors.
What is animism?
300
Peace treaty signed in 1979 between Egypt and Israel.
What is the Camp David Accords?
400
The Nile River is the longest river in the world, which empties into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
To adapt or train plants or animals for human use.
What is domesticate?
400
Descent from father to father.
What is patrilineal?
400
A steep slope separating two flat areas of different heights.
What is an escarpment?
400
A body prepared for burial according to ancient Egyptian practice.
What is a mummy?
500
This semiarid region is just south of the Sahara.
What is Sahel?
500
An early human.
What is a hominid?
500
The shared attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors of a group.
What is culture?
500
The highest mountain in Africa.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
500
An ancient Egyptian structure, built over or around a tomb.
What is a pyramid?
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