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Vocabulary
100
These are the main form of landscape in the region.
What are coastal plains?
100
The first people in the region were
What are hunters and gatherers?
100
Many northern Africans were influenced by which group of people.
What are Arabs?
100
These make up the backbone of these countries in the region.
What is oil and natural gas?
100
This a port where there are almost no taxes put on the goods unloaded there.
What is a free port?
200
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
200
This was the year the first civilization in the region created.
What is by 3000 B.C.E?
200
This is the official language of every country in North Africa.
What is Arabic?
200
They make up 40% of Egypt's work force.
What are fellahin?
200
This is a large low area.
What is a depression?
300
This is the mountain found in the region.
What is the Atlas Mountain?
300
The name given to an Egyptian ruler.
What is a pharaoh?
300
These are the other languages spoken in the region.
What is French, English, and a Berber dialect?
300
The percent that Libya imports of food.
What is 75%?
300
This is a sea of sand created by high, shifting sand dunes.
What is an erg?
400
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
400
Egyptian astronomers did this.
What is created a 365-day calendar?
400
This is a place where people go to socialize, shop, and pray.
What is the Median?
400
Pros of dams in the region.
What is hydroelectric power and more land for farming?
400
This is a gravel-covered plain in a desert area.
What is a reg?
500
The three types of climates found in the region.
What are Mediterranean, semi-arid, and arid?
500
These are the foreigners that had control of Egypt.
What are Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans?
500
The reason people wear traditional clothing.
What is its long and loose and ideal for the region's hot climates?
500
The cons of dams.
What is having to use fertilizers that pollute the area?
500
This is a writing system that used pictures and symbols.
What is hieroglyphics?
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