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What is the world's largest continent?
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What is the world's second largest continent and covers 20% of the world's land surface?
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What are the five climatic zones of Africa?
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The Mediterranean
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The Sahel
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The Steppes
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Tropical Rain-forest
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The Savanna
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What is the Mediterranean Like?
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Fertile land, with unpredictable rainfall
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What are the Steppes Like?
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Dry with little plant life
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Favors Herding
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What is the Sahel Like?
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Sub-Desert Fringe
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What are the Savannas Like?
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Flat Grasslands
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Encouraged grain based agriculture
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What are the Tropical Rain Forests Like?
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Humid, tropical
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Favor hunting and gathering and later root based agriculture
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What are the major crops of root based agriculture?
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Yams, Potatoes, and Cassava
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North African contact with Asian and European Civilizations date back to the ancient....
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Phoenicians,Greeks, and Romans
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Africans who had the greatest degree of outside contact with non-Africans were located where?
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Along the coast and around trade routes
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Who first conquered North Africa in the seventh and eighth centuries?
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The Muslim Arabs
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Who settled in North Africa after their expulsion from Spain in 1492?
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Spanish Muslims and Jews
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What did the Greeks call the people south of the Sahara?
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What does Ethiopian mean?
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People with burnt faces
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The Berber and the Arabs both called North Africa what?
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The land of the blacks
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South of the rain-forests on the continent's southern third lived what group of hunters and those who domesticated livestock?
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Khoisan People
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Ancient Egypt was located at the crossroads of three continents and became a...
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Melting pot of many different Cultures
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What was West African Society Like?
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People felt like they shared a bond with one another through blood relationships and shared religious beliefs. Extended families make up the villages that collectively make up kingdoms.
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Define Sudan
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The African region surrounded by the Sahara, the Gulf of Guinea, the Atlantic Ocean. and the mountains of Ethiopia.
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Define Trans Saharan Trade
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North-south trade across the Sahara
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What animal heavily impacted Trans Saharan Trade?
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When were camels introduced into the Sahara and then Sudan?
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Before 200 C.E.
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How many pounds can camels carry a day, going how many miles a day?
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They can carry five hundred pounds, twenty five miles a day
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What were the effects of Trans Sahara Trade?
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It brought lasting economic and social change to Africa, facilitated the spread of Islam via Muslim Arab traders, and affected the development of world commerce
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Define Berbers
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North African peoples who controlled the caravan trade between the Mediterranean and the Sudan
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When did North African Berbers fashion a saddle for use on a camel?
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Sometime in the fifth century C.E.
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What was the power of the Berbers?
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They determined who could enter the desert, and extracted protection money from merchant caravans in exchange for a safe trip
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