Name that Country
Capital: Cairo
Languages: Arabic, English French
Population: 102,0297,000
Egypt
This region is separated from its neighbors by the Kalahari Desert. It is rich in minerals and developed farmland. A few of the countries in this region are Namibia, the Republic of South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
What is Southern Africa?
The largest desert in the world, covering 3.5 million miles. It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean, across parts of Central Africa to the Red Sea.
What is the Sahara?
People who settled in Africa and whose descendants live in North Africa.
Who are the Afro-Asians?
The first African civilization in the Nile Valley.
What was Egyptian Civilization?
Capital: Addis Ababa
Languages: Amharic, Tigrinya, Arabic, Orominga, English, others
Population: 435,186
Ethiopia
This region covers the area between two deserts and contains two of Africa's major rivers. Because the equator runs through this region, it contains thick, forest jungles.
What is Central Africa?
The name of two of the four largest rivers in Africa.
What is the Nile and the Congo?
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What is the Niger and the Zambezi?
People who settled in the Congo basin and who were short in stature.
Who are the Pygmies?
An ancient civilization that would be located in what is today north of Ethiopia.
What is Kush?
Capital: Rabat
Languages: Arabic, Berber dialects, French
Population: 169,827
Morocco
This region borders the Mediterranean Sea and is separated from the rest of Africa by the Sahara Desert. Modern-day countries that make up this region are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
What is North Africa?
The name of an active volcano in Africa.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
People who once may have roamed all over Africa and Europe and now live on the fringes of the Kalahari desert.
Who are bushmen?
A kingdom that had been in the mountains of Ethiopia (SE of where Kush was located). It was later cut off from the rest of the world by Muslims in the 1200s. It had unique architecture.
What is Axum?
Capital: Chad
Languages: French, Arabic, Sara, others
Population: 495,755
Chad
This region is separated from the rest of Africa by high mountains. The volcanoes in this region make the farmlands rich and fertile. Some of the countries in this region are Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Mozambique.
What is East Africa?
The name of the four main biomes in Africa.
What is desert, rainforest, savannah, chaparral?
Tall, black people who inhabit the central plateau of Africa.
Who are the Bantu?
A kingdom in 300 A.D. in what is now Ethiopia. In the 7th century the Christian Church here was cut off by Muslims from the rest of the world.
What is Nubia?
Capital: Harare
Languages: English, Shona, Sindebele, others
Population: 150,872
Location: SE Africa
Zimbabwe
This region lies between the Sahara and the equator. It is fertile and rich area with grasslands, rainforests, and farmlands. Many small nations lie on the coast of this region.
What is West Africa?
The name of two of the three largest lakes in Africa.
What is Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi, (or Lake Tanganyika)?
What is family (or what is community)?
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What is religion?
The first Christian missionary to reach the kingdom that was southeast of Kush and in the mountains of Ethiopia. He is now a saint and lived around the year 330 A.D.
Who is St. Frumentius?