Places
What country is located at the very top-right of the continent of Africa?
Egypt
A Hebrew that was sent to Egypt as a slave and became an "Overseer of All Works of the King."
Joseph
The city where the sun was worshipped is __________________.
Heliopolis
What is a piece of land that has been built over the years from deposited soil at the mouth of a river?
Delta
What is the largest desert in the world?
Sahara
What sea is east of Egypt?
Red Sea
King of Upper and Lower Egypt
Menes
Who carved churches out of rock in AFRICA?
King Lalibela
What is a large bed of rocks piled in a river that produces small waterfalls?
Cataracts
What is an "Overseer of All Works of the King?"
Vizier
In a very rocky valley on the west bank of the Nile River near the city of Thebes lies the __________________________.
Valley of the Kings
Who was ancient Egypt's only female Pharaoh?
Queen Hatshepsut
What is the "Smoke that Thunders?"
Victoria Falls
A dead king's body would be ______________. Meaning, they were covered in chemicals.
Mummified
What two foods where main parts of the Egyptian diet?
Bread and vegetables.
The greatest ancient civilization in Africa was __________________.
Kingdom of Cush
One of the leaders of the African church that boldly proclaimed that Jesus is God when some church people were doubting Christ's deity.
Athanasius
The only two nations that remained independent from European colonization.
Liberia and Ethiopia.
A vast marshy area between the White Nile and the Blue and is also the world's largest swamp.
The Sudd
Africa's first and greatest Christian kingdom.
Aksum
The largest desert region in Southern Africa.
Kalahari Desert
Who said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Henry Stanley
Who took over the Suez Canal by force from the British in 1956 which started a war over the canal?
President Nasser
What is the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
Who was the first black bishop the Church of England had ever had?
Samuel Crowther