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Modern Africa
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100
This desert covers most of Egypt
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
Joseph
Who is a vizier mentioned in the Bible?
100
Ethiopia
What is the African nation that has been independent for over 2,000 years?
100
mummy
What is a body wrapped and preserved for eternal life?
100
Menes
Who is the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt?
200
A buildup of loose sand and soil at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
200
Ancient Egypt's only woman pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
Cairo
What is the largest city in Africa?
200
Sphinx
What is a monument with the head of a man and the body, legs, and paws of a lion that stands near the pyramids?
200
Tutankhamen
Who is the pharaoh whose tomb revealed much about Ancient Egypt?
300
Africa
What is the world's second largest continent?
300
Rosetta Stone
What is the key to understanding the meaning of hieroglyphics?
300
Suez Canal
What man-made waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea?
300
famine
What is a time of serious shortage of food?
300
James Bruce
Who was the first European explorer of Africa?
400
Kilimanjaro
What is Africa's highest mountain?
400
Akhentaton
Who was Egypt's frist pharaoh?
400
Nelson Mandela
Who was the first black presidend of South Africa?
400
vizier
What is the title given to the second in command to the Egyptian king?
400
Cush
What is the greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior?
500
A deep, narrow valeywith steep sides
What is a canyon?
500
Flood Season Planting Season Harvest Season
What were Ancient Egypt's seasons?
500
pygmies
Who are very short people descended from original in habitants of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
500
Egypt
The "Gift of the Nile" is another name for this country.
500
Daid Livingstone
Who was the young Scottish doctor that became a missionary in Africa?