Many North Africans share this common religion that is the fastest growing in the world today.
What is Islam or the Muslim faith?
100
The Nile River, the longest in the world flows north through Egypt into what sea?
What is the Mediterranean
100
A ruler of ancient Egypt, Khufu was one.
What is a pharaoh?
100
Fertile soil deposited by a river.
What is silt?
100
The process in which fertile land becomes extremely arid.
What is desertification?
200
I can tell stories about all the people and their ancestors of our village that last for many hours or even days.
What is a griot?
200
I am the largest desert in the world, I can be found in North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
200
Thousands of symbols or picture writing of ancient Egypt.
What are Egyptian Hieroglyphs?
200
An open-air market where people buy and sell produce or handicrafts.
What is a souk?
200
I was opened in 1970 to help control the flooding of the Nile and provide hydroelectric power to most of Egypt, but because of me over 90,000 Nubian residents were displaced.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
300
I am the belief that trees, animals, and ancestors have living spirits.
What is animism?
300
I am a steep slope separating two flat area of different heights.
What is an escarpment?
300
For hundreds of years along North African ports, we would seize ships' cargo and enslave the crews or hold them for ransom as a way to make a living.
Who were the Barbary pirates?
300
The Arab name for North Africa, which means "the West."
What is Maghrib?
300
I took 10 years to build, beginning in 1859, I am about 100 miles long but save thousands of miles of travel for ships by connecting the Red and Mediterranean Seas.
What is the Suez Canal?
400
We do not have a single leader, but resolve problems by having our elders meet and talk until they agree.
What is a stateless society?
400
This is a nickname for Africa because much of it is at high elevations with flat land forms.
Why is Africa called the Plateau Continent?
400
The original traders from Asia who brought the Islamic faith to North Africa and the Sahara.
Who were the Berbers?
400
I am the key to deciphering hieroglyphics found in 1799.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
Britain invaded Egypt in 1882 and took control because Egypt was weaker and Britain was a stronger nation, it declared Egypt this.
What is a protectorate
500
I am that phenomenon that nations like Egypt and America have where many cultures blend into one nation.
What is a melting pot?
500
A chain of several mountain ranges stretching from Morocco to Tunisia in Northern Africa.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
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500
We were two of the very few but famous and powerful female pharaohs of ancient Egypt.
Who were Queen Hatshepsut and Cleopatra?
500
A traditional Berber garment; a robe with full sleeves.
What is a jellaba?
500
I am the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state, signed by the Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat and the prime minster of Israel.