Peoples
The Nubian people, often in conflict with ancient Egyptians, lived beyond the upper cataracts of the Nile River in what modern day country?
What is Sudan?
This city is the current capital of Egypt and one of the largest metropolitan centers on the African Continent...
What is Cairo?
The kingdoms of ancient Egypt were built around the fertile flood plains of this river
What is the Nile?
The northern half of the continent is dominated by this desert....
What is the Sahara?
The Ivory Coast and Ghana cultivate over half of the world's supply of this bean?
What is the Cocoa bean?
The Zanj peoples of the Great Lakes region of eastern Africa were regularly traded to Arabs as this in markets at Zanzibar...
What are slaves?
This ancient trading city was central to the Arabian slave trade and is located on the coastal islands of modern day Tanzania...
What is Zanzibar?
Egypt's second largest city, Alexandria, is named for this Greek conqueror..
Who is Alexander the Great?
This channel of the Indian Ocean separates the island of Madagascar from the African continent?
What is the Mozambique Channel?
Mining of gold and minerals, and these precious stones, has been big business in Africa since the 19th century scramble by European powers...
What are diamonds?
This term commonly refers to peoples of sub-Saharan Africa with common language roots...
What is Bantu?
This city, steeped in colonial history, lies at the confluence of the Blue and white Nile Rivers...
What is Khartoum?
In 30 BC, Egypt was absorbed by this empire after Marc Antony and Cleopatra's defeat by Octavius..
What is the Roman Empire?
This biome, although reduced through human urbanization in recent decades, lies primarily in equatorial central and coastal Africa..
What is the Tropical Rain Forest?
This type of animal husbandry refers to the herding of cattle, goats, and yaks, among others, by nomadic peoples...
What is Pastoralism?
This term, Greek for barbarian, historically referred to an ethnicity common to North and West Africa (also the Barbary Coast)...
What is Berber?
This city is the oldest settlement founded by formerly enslaved African Americans, many of which arrived from the Caribbean bringing with them a Creole culture...
What is Freetown?
These structures, sometimes referred to collectively as the Giza Necropolis, were built roughly 4500 years ago during the 4th dynasty of the old kingdom...
What are the pyramids (and Sphinx)?
This transitional zone between the desert and the savannah runs from Senegal to Eritrea...
What is the Sahel?
This country is renown for the Arabica coffee bean?
What is Ethiopia?
These people, commonly known as "Bushmen", are indigenous to the western regions of southern Africa..
Who are the San?
South Africa's governmental capital is divided among three cities, the legislative in Cape Town, the Judical in Bloemfontein, and the executive in...
What is Pretoria?
The 1922 discovery of the intact tomb and mummy of this New Kingdom Pharoah, renewed interest in ancient Egypt..
Who is Tutankhamun (king Tut)?
Although technically a semi-arid savannah due to yearly rainfall, the Kalahari Desert occupies parts of South Africa, Namibia, and the majority of this nation...
What is Botswana?
The construction of this between the Nile delta and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, connected the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, and eased shipping between Europe and the Asian sub-continent..
What is the Suez canal?