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encompasses all of the lands below the Sahara
What is Sub-Saharan Africa
100
The language that developed between the coastal people and the Arabs was a hodge podge of Arabic and Bantu languages
What is Swahili?
100
Peoples that include hundreds of tribes across sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Bantu?
100
They were driven out of South Africa and into Botswana by the Bantus and Europeans. They have survived as hunters and gatherers in the Kalahari Desert.
What is the San?
100
These nomadic people are famous for their ritual dances and skills as warriors.
What are the Masai?
200
The vegetation of tropical areas with a long dry season; has grasses and scattered drought-resistant trees
What is savanna
200
The Nile flows over six falls or rapids called __________.
What is cataracts?
200
Today the Dutch South Africans call themselves _____.
What are the Afrikaners?
200
Frequent fogs, resulting in countless shipwrecks have given this northern shore this nickname.
What is Skeleton Coast?
200
Was once the Arab's largest slave-trading in East Africa. It was also the largest producer of cloves, supplying 80 percent of the world's needs.
What is Zanzibar?
300
A steep rise from a plain to a plateau.
What is escarpment?
300
Over 3 million people live here today, making it the third-largest city in southern and eastern Africa.
What is Cape Town?
300
In 1886 prospectors struck gold near this place in the Witwatersrand District. English speaking foreigners poured in and staked claims. The influx of people made this place one of the largest cities in South Africa. It now boasts over 7 million people and is the largest city in southern Africa.
What is Johannesburg?
300
An isolated region of Angola north of the Congo River, that has valuable petroleum reserves.
What is Cabinda?
300
With over 3 million people, this city is the largest within the four nations of the Horn of Africa. The various heads of state in Africa met here in 1963 and chartered the OAU which later became the AU in 2002.
What is Addis Ababa?
400
A language that resulted from grammar simplified from their High Dutch language and incorporated words from their languages such as Zulu.
What is Afrikaans?
400
In Natal are the ____________ , the most famous of the Bantu tribes.
What is Zulu?
400
Located near Johannesburg and the nation's fourth-largest city, it became the administrative capital of the nation to balance the legislative capital at Cape Town.
What is Pretoria?
400
An ancient ruin and the largest stone monument in Africa outside the pyramids. These ruins show evidence of the only ancient metalworking civilization south of the equator.
What is the Great Zimbabwe?
400
Formerly the OAU, established in 2002.
What is African Union (AU)?
500
A rigorous policy of racial separation
What is apartheid?
500
The original Dutch farmers, that spread out from Cape Town across the fertile coastal plain.
What is Boers?
500
In 1990 this jailed ANC leader was released.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
The second largest city of the Lakes Region, situated on a plateau at an elevation of about 5,500 feet. It has a cool climate compared to other cities near the equator. This modern city lies in its own capital district, separate from the seven provinces of Kenya.
What is Nairobi?
500
The Southeastern part of Ethiopia, and one of the hot, dry lowlands along the Ethiopian border.
What is the Ogaden.
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