Africa World His. Test

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Atlas Mountains

Africa’s longest mountain range

Regs

Stony plains covered with rocky gravel

Sahel

Region in the TZ that means shore or coast in Arabic

Sahel receives

little rainfall (4-8 inches annually)

Great Rift Valley

A crack in the Earth’s surface formed by shifting and separating tectonic plates

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Highest point in Africa

90% of Egypt’s people lives in

Nile Delta

Lake Victoria

Second-largest freshwater lake in the water

Oasis

Place in the desert where underground water surfaces

Hieroglyphics

System of writing

1800s Berlin Conference

Held to regulate Europeans colonization in Africa

Sudan

tensions between Muslims and the secular government have led to a conflict in which nearly 300,000 people died between 1983 and 2005

700s

Traders from the Arabian Peninsula established colonies along the coast of EA

Rwandan Genocide

Hutus killed around 800,000 Tutsi people in 100 days

Berbers

Largest group of indigenous people in North Africa (15 million)

The Nile River valley

One of the world’s most densely populated areas

EA has a _ population

diverse; with many different indigenous peoples and people from other countries

Much of N. Africa region

speaks Arabic and is part of Muslim faith

Animist cultures

believe all elements of nature, such as animals and mountains, have spirits

Families are

patriarchal, or headed by a male family member

English and French serve as a

lingua franca (common language)

Subsistence Farming

when a farmer grows crops primarily to feed his/her family, selling any small surplus

Majority of jobs in EA are

in agriculture (90% in most places)

Ecotourism

(tourism based on concern for the environment) is an important part of the economy