Countries of North Africa
The Capital of Egypt is _____.
What is Cairo?
This river runs all the way through Egypt and is where almost all of the cities can be found.
What is the Nile River?
This is the religion of almost all North Africans.
What is Islam?
Egyptians did not call their leaders Kings and Queens, but instead this.
What are Pharaohs?
A flat platform of earth cut into the side of a slope, used for growing crops in steep places.
What is a terrace?
The capital of Tunisia is ________.
What is Tunis?
This land form can be seen and felt in every North African country.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This ethnic group was one of the first inhabitants of North Africa, later becoming a coast of experienced pirates.
Who are the Berbers?
This Egyptian city was known for its library, sadly it burned down in 48 B.C.E. by none other than Julius Caesar and his boys.
What is Alexandria?
An old, crowded section of a North African city.
What is a casbah?
The capital of Algeria is ______.
What is Algiers?
This Mountain Range plays an incredibly important role in creating "The Tell," the area in which almost all Algerians live.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
This group of people brought the religion of Islam with them throughout the 600-700 CE.
Who are the Arabs?
This historic empire fell to the Romans in 146 B.C.E. Even Hannibal could not save them.
What is the Carthaginian Empire?
This is Islamic law, based on the words and deeds of Muhammad.
What is Sharia?
The capital of Morocco is _______.
What is Rabat?
This man-made lake is the largest in the world and plays a vital role in controlling flooding within its nation.
What is Lake Nasser?
This European nation laid claim to almost all of North Africa.
Who is France?
In Egypt most people are Muslims, but a small amount of people are a part of this very old branch of the Christian Church.
What is Coptic Christianity?
In Algeria it is called a souq, while it has a different name in Egypt.
What is a bazaar?
The capital of Libya is _______.
What is Tripoli?
One of the most sought after pieces of land in the world, this connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
Almost every North African country speaks some version of these TWO languages.
What is Arabic and Berber?
The Sahara Desert takes up _____% of Algeria.
What is 85%?
These are peasant farmers in Egypt and other Arab countries.
What are fellaheen?