African Geography
What is Africa’s geography is
vast and diverse
What region of West Africa has a desert climate?
Northern zone
The name of the Ancient Egyptian writing style.
hieroglyphs
Carthage
the Phoenicican city established on the North African Coast.
The author of the African Presence in America. He wrote a book on the African presence in the Olmec culture of Ancient Central America.
Ivan van Sertima?
What imaginary line is not passed through Africa?
International Date line
What does the steppe climate support?
Grazing animals
Isis, Osiris, Ra, and Hathor
significant deities with intertwined roles
This was the second capital of the Nubian Kingdom.
Meroe?
This couple advocated for the theory that Africa was the birthplace of humanity?
Lewis and Mary Leaky?
Which African river crosses the equator two times.
Zaire River
What is an important crop for West Africa?
Cacao
This pharaoh established a monotheistic religion based on worship of the god Ra.
Akhenaten
The city founded by Alexander the Great and was the capital of Egypt under the Greeks from 332 BCE to 30 BCE.
Alexandria.
Sunni Baru was overthrown by this man in the 15th Century?
Askia Mohammed I.
What is the longest river in Africa?
Nile River
What problem was caused by political boundaries drawn by European colonizers?
Political boundaries often separated members of the same ethnic group
This king first unified Upper and Lower Egypt.
leader Menes
Port Adulis
the Port of the Axumite Kingdom on the Red Sea?
This man travelled to and wrote about Ancient Mali?
Ibn Batuta?
The equator passes through which of the following African lake?
Victoria
How did the great kingdoms of West Africa become powerful?
Controlling trade routes across the Sahara
These people overran the government of Egypt in 1517 and established Islam as the official religion.
The Ottoman Empire
This is where the University of Sankore was established
the city of Timbuctu?
This ruler established Christianity as the main religion of Axum in the 4th Centure?
King Ezana?