Africa Physical Geography
largest hot desert in the world, makes up most of north Africa
Sahara Desert
This ancient African empire was known for building pyramids.
Egypt
A major resource found in the Saharan Desert.
Oil/Petroleum
Name meaning "land between rivers".
Mesopotamia
This precious resource has given the middle east vast amounts of wealth and led to many conflicts.
Petroleum/Oil
Region of Africa known for its seismic activity. Its slowly splitting from the rest of the continent.
Great Rift Valley
Mansa Musa
Most common language or religion found in North Africa.
Civilization that invented the wheel, cuneiform, and taxes.
Sumerians
This enthic group is speaks Hebrew and mostly occupies the land of Israel.
Jews or Jewish
This region of Africa is categorized by humid rainforests and rich biodiversity
Central Africa
European theory that some ethnicities or races (i.e. whites) were naturally and biological superior to all others.
Social Darwinism
A mining practice in West, Central, and Southern Africa known for child/forced labor. Used to gain this very precious mineral.
diamonds
Ancient middle eastern king who estblished the first rule of law and united Mesopotamia.
Hammurabi
Leader of Iraq from 1970s to 2006. Invaded Iran and Kuwait, crippling his nation and its people in the process.
Saddam Hussein
Region of Africa with many different environments. Includes countries such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Namibia.
Southern Africa
The conference where European nations met to split up the continent of Africa between them.
Berlin Conference
Forced, and often oppressive, legal seperation of blacks and whites in South Africa.
Apartheid
The main legal concept used in the Code of Hammurabi.
"eye for an eye"
The events of 9/11/2001 led to the US invading this middle eastern country. In 2020 the US left, making it the longest official war in the country's history.
Afghanistan
Historically the richest region of Africa. Heavily involved in the slave trade and ancient trading empires.
West Africa
This event led to the end of colonialism in Africa. European nation could no longer focus on empires abroad.
World War I
In 1994 this country experienced a genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group which made up about 15% of its population.
Rwanda
This idea estblishes the legal precedent of trials and judges to decide a person's punishment.
"Innocent until proven guilty"
This agreement between Israel and other middle east and north African nations (UAE, Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan) is seen a one of the first steps towards peace in the middle east.
Abraham Accords