Religion
Egyptians who belong to an ancient Christian church indigenous to North Africa.
What is Copts?
A body that has been preserved so it will not decompose
What is mummy?
A system of many government officials that carry out government rules and regulations
What is bureaucracy?
Change from arable land to desert
What is desertification ?
A traveling person who survived by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants for villages
What is hunter-gatherer ?
A man who vows poverty, obedience, chastity and sometimes silence in a religious community.
What is monk?
A symbol that stands for a word, idea, or sound
What is hieroglyphic?
Former South African policy of keeping white and black South Africans apart
What is apartheid?
Loss of forest cover in a region that results from trees being destroyed faster than they can grow back
What is deforestation?
A business that has groups of workers who provide customer service by phone
What is call center?
Belief that government and society should be based on Islamic law.
What is Islamism?
Grand stone pillar used to mark graves
What is stele?
2011 movement for more democracy in the Arab world
What is Arab Spring?
Place in the desert where water can be found
What is oasis?
Group of people who operate with private funding, and provide services
What is nongovernmental organization (NGO)?
Common currency used by West and Central African countries, and guaranteed by the French Treasury.
what is CFA franc?
A writing surface similar to paper named after the papyrus reed that grew along the Nile River in ancient Egypt
What is papyrus?
Political and social movement to strengthen bonds between people of African descent
What is Pan-Africanism?
Swahili city-state with multi-storied stone houses
What is stone-town?
Exchange of European goods for enslaved Africans forced to work on colonial plantations in the Americas
What is Atlantic slave trade?
Present in a region since ancient or prehistoric times
What is indigenous?
An object made by a human being, such as a tool or weapon
What is a artifact?
A series of rulers from the same family
What is dynasty ?
Park-like landscape of grasslands with scattered trees that can survive dry spells, found in tropical areas with dry seasons
What is savanna?
A king of ancient Egypt that help them make rightful decisions
What is pharaoh?