Reigon Quiz
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- Set apart from the rest of the continent by the Sahara Desert and Islamic culture
- Northern Africa
- Mix of light-skinned Arabs, Berbers, Moors, and Egyptians
- Northern Africa
- Almost entirely desert except for Northern Coast where most of population lives
- Northern Africa
- Mediterranean crops; grapes, olives, citrus, dates (in abundance.)
- Northern Africa
- France plays an influential role
- Northern Africa
- Frequent droughts -Small fertile regions along Southern borders
- Northern Africa
- Countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara
- Northern Africa
- Bulge of Africa
- Western Africa
- Many nations share similar landscapes, climates, economies, religions, histories
- Western Africa
- European introduced cash crops chief products of costal exports
- Western Africa
- Harbors had to be built along the coast because of treacherous waters prevented large ships from reaching shore.
- Western Africa
- grain coast
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- ivory coast
- cote d ivoire w
- gold coast
- ghana w
- slave coast
- Togo, Benin and Nigeria w
- Between 16th and 18th centuries, an estimated 10 million slaves were sent
- western africa
- Triangular routes and three different cargoes
- western
- Christianity and Islam but most West Africans are Animists, people who worship The dead souls and spirits believed to be part of the environment.
- western
- Official languages are French, English, or Portuguese.
- western
- -Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea- Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
- western
- Dense rainforest form a wide band
- central
- Equatorial Africa
- central
- the Dark Continent
- central
- few live in the north and south in savannas
- central
- malaria and sleeping sickness caused by tsitsi fly cause thousands of deaths
- central
- Sleeping sickness makes it virtually impossible to raise cattle, so no fertilizer
- central
- most speak variations of the Bantu language
- central
- Pygmy population of 200,000
- central
- Congo River. Brazzaville and Kinshasa face each other from opposite banks
- central
- Portuguese were first to explore but gave way to Europeans
- central
- Angola, Cameroon, CAR, Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Zambia
- central
- Devastating famines in the 1980’s in the Ethiopian region
- eastern
- Prolonged civil war
- eastern
- Ever-present starvation
- eastern
- dark skinned fine featured people with are Caucasoids of the Hamatic origin related to the people of the Middle East.
- eastern
- Christianity and Islam: Dominant religions
- eastern
- South of Horn live mostly black Africans of Swahili-speaking Bantu tribes
- eastern
- Considerably drier, higher, and cooler than Equatorial countries of Africa
- eastern
- Great Rift Valley separates East Africa from the rest of the continent
- eastern
- Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda
- eastern
- Mineral rich region
- southern
- Great natural wealth and mild weather attracted largest concentration of European immigrants in Africa.
- southern
- Area which has taken blacks the longest to regain control.
- southern
- most is a high plateau, sloping eastward and upward to Drakensberg Range Looming over coast line on Indian Ocean
- southern
- half is either all desert (Namib) or semi-desert (the Kalahari)
- southern
- Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
- southern