Geography
Food
Religion
Language
Historical Foundations
100

This desert covers much of the interior of North Africa.

What is The Sahara Desert?

100

The diet in North Africa shares distinct similarities with what other geographical region of the world?

What is Southern Europe? / What is the Mediterranean Diet?

100

This is the dominant religion found in North and West Africa.

What is Islam?

100

The continent of Africa is the most linguistically diverse continent and features approximately this many languages.

What is 2,000 languages?

100

North Africa finds its historical Foundations from these two ancient civilizations.

What is Egypt and Carthage?

200

This river supports dense populations and agriculture in Egypt and Sudan.

What is the Nile River?

200

This is a dough-like African staple food made from starchy ingredients like cassava, yams, or plantains.

What is Fufu?

200

This is the dominant religion found in Central Africa.

What is Christianity?
200

These are the primary language families found in North Africa.

What are Afro Asiatic and Nilo Saharan?

200

Africa fell victim to this practice of European powers.

What is Colonialism?

300

This river, found in Central Africa, is the region's main transportation route.

What is the Congo River?

300

This is a savory stew-like dish cooked in a traditional North African earthenware cooking pot with a conical lid.

What is Tagine?

300

This is the blending of different religious belief systems or the incorporation of beliefs and practices from one religion into another.

What is Syncretism?

300

Most people in Central Africa speak languages from this family.

What are Bantu languages?
300

This practice saw European traders buying prisoners from African kings and sending them oversees for profit.

What is the slave trade?

400

West Africa is divided into these four geographical zones.

What are the Sahara, Sahel, savanna grasslands, and rain forest?

400

This is a root food similar to potatoes that is commonly eaten in Africa.

What is cassava?

400

This is a common religious pilgrimage that is Central to the cultural identity of North Africa.

What is The Hajj?

400

These are the primary language families found in West Africa.

What are Niger-Congo and Afroasiastic?
400

These ancient civilizations controlled the gold-salt trade in West Africa.

What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?

500
These mountains in Northern Africa provide fertile farmland for the region.

What are the Atlas Mountains?

500

This is a traditional West African dish featuring a rich, savory base made from ground peanuts, often combined with vegetables like sweet potatoes and tomatoes, a protein such as chicken or beef, and spices.

What is Groundnut stew?

500

Traditional African religions emphasize these beliefs.

What are ancestral spirits? / What is community harmony? / What is respect for nature?

500

A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different is known as this.

What is a Lingua Francas?

500

These kingdoms controlled much of Central Africa prior to disruption by the slave-trade.

What are the Kongo and Luba?