Physical Geography
This type of climate dominates North Africa.
What is a desert/arid climate?
The ancient Egyptian civilization formed around this river.
What is the Nile River?
Farms in the desert are usually clustered around water spots found within the desert, which is the definition for this term.
What is an oasis?
This religion is the dominant religion of North Africa.
What is Islam?
This North African country lost ties with Muslim nations for it's relations with Israel and the U.S.A.
What is Egypt?
This country is claimed by Morocco.
What is Western Sahara?
This is the name of the system of writing in Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
This group (Muslims OR Romans) had a larger impact on the history of North Africa compared to the other.
Who are the Muslims?
Most Egyptians live around this major waterway.
What is the Nile River?
This group of Muslims have recently led movements to encourage North African countries to strictly follow the laws of Islam.
Who are Muslim fundamentalists?
This North African country claims the most oil reserves in the region.
What is Libya?
The Egyptians built these architectural structures because of their belief in the afterlife.
This waterway, built in 1869, grew European interest in North Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
This is the official language of all five North African nations.
What is Arabic?
The Arab Spring revolts of the 2010s started in this North African country.
What is Tunisia?
What is Southwest Asia?
This Egyptian figure held the most power and importance in the ancient civlization.
Who is the pharaoh?
These two European nations colonized North Africa.
Who are the British and French.
This is North Africa's largest city.
What is Cairo, Egypt?
This group of people often have more rights than their counterparts in other Muslim nations.
Who are women?
The Nile brings life to a dry Egypt because of this material deposited into the soil when the river floods.
What is silt?
This explains why Egyptian rulers stopped building pyramids and started building underground tombs.
What is to protect their riches from tomb robbers?
This country was the first to gain their independence in the region.
What is Egypt?
What is living forms/figures?
What are a push for democracy and rising Islamic fundamentalism?