Africa Geography
The largest geographic feature on the continent of Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
What is a city-state?
A narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger bodies of land, and surrounded on 2 sides by water.
What is an isthmus?
Who is Mansa Musa?
A half man, half bull in Greek mythology.
What is a minotaur?
Smoke that Thunders
What is the name locals give the Victoria Falls?
The heating and cooling of the earth's mantle.
What is convection?
What is a strait?
An ancient African empire that adopted Christianity as its official religion.
What is Axum?
A time in Greek history in which historians do not know what happened.
What are the Greek Dark Ages?
A river in Africa that has 3 different flood zones.
What is the Niger River?
The Greek word for 'city.'
What is a polis?
The 2 main peninsulas of Greece.
What are the Balkans and the Peloponnesus Peninsulas?
An African empire that had pyramids like the Egyptians, only smaller.
What is Kush?
A group believed to have migrated from Greece and settled next to the Israelites.
Who are the Philistines?
A body of water on the African continent that is shrinking due to drought and irrigation issues.
What is Lake Chad?
The extension of a nation's power over other lands.
What is imperialism?
This feature forced Greeks to establish colonies due to the lack of farmable land in Greece.
What are mountains?
An African empire that passed its laws down by word of mouth.
Who is Ghana?
A war between Sparta and Athens.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
A geographic formation on the continent of Africa formed by divergent plates.
The unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols.
What is nationalism?
Greece is about the size of this US state.
What is Louisiana?
The gold from this ancient African empire reached as far as Mongolia.
What is Zimbabwe?
Alexander the Great often read 'The Iliad' and wanted to imitate this character.
Who is Achilles?