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What are the Zambezi, What are the Zambezi, Zaire or Congo, the Niger, Zaire or Congo, the Niger,

and the Nile?and the Nile?These are the four main These are the four main

rivers of Africa. rivers of Africa.

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What is Bantu?What is Bantu?This is the African language This is the African language

that originated in the that originated in the southeastern part of Africa southeastern part of Africa 2000 years ago and spread 2000 years ago and spread

throughout sub-Saharan throughout sub-Saharan Africa.Africa.

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What is the Great Rift What is the Great Rift Valley?Valley?

This is the valley that runs This is the valley that runs through the horn of Africa through the horn of Africa

from the Nile to Lake from the Nile to Lake Malawi.Malawi.

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What are East Africa and What are East Africa and Indonesia ?Indonesia ?

These are the two cultures These are the two cultures Asian and African that Asian and African that

scholars have determined scholars have determined exchanged goods, and ideas exchanged goods, and ideas

around 300 A.D. around 300 A.D.

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What are Ghana, Liberia, the What are Ghana, Liberia, the Ivory Coast in the west and Ivory Coast in the west and Mozambique in the east?Mozambique in the east?These are the four modern These are the four modern

areas of Africa that have a areas of Africa that have a gradually sloping shoreline gradually sloping shoreline

as opposed to the steep as opposed to the steep cliffs of most of coastal cliffs of most of coastal

Africa.Africa.

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What are Mt. Kilimanjaro What are Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya?and Mt. Kenya?

These are the the two These are the the two highest mountains in Africa.highest mountains in Africa.

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What are Cape Horn and What are Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope?the Cape of Good Hope?

These are the tips or Capes These are the tips or Capes of South America and Africa.of South America and Africa.

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What are the Rocky What are the Rocky Mountains and the Andes Mountains and the Andes

Mountains?Mountains?These mountains are the These mountains are the spine of North and South spine of North and South

America.America.

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What is the Bering Strait?What is the Bering Strait?

This is the narrow gap This is the narrow gap between continents, that between continents, that

was once covered with ice, was once covered with ice, and served as a land bridge and served as a land bridge from Asia to the Americas.from Asia to the Americas.

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“Don’t Choke!”

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What are the Sahara and What are the Sahara and the Kalahari Deserts?the Kalahari Deserts?

These are the two large These are the two large deserts of Africa.deserts of Africa.

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Who was King Ezana?Who was King Ezana?

He was the King of Axum He was the King of Axum who defeated the kingdom who defeated the kingdom

of Cush and established of Cush and established Christianity as the religion in Christianity as the religion in

325 A.D.325 A.D.

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Who was Ibn Battuta ?Who was Ibn Battuta ?

He was the famous Muslim He was the famous Muslim geographer and world geographer and world traveler of the 1300s. traveler of the 1300s.

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Who was Mansa Musa?Who was Mansa Musa?He was the king of Mali He was the king of Mali

who made a pilgrimage to who made a pilgrimage to Mecca with so much Mecca with so much

wealth that he weakened wealth that he weakened the value of gold in Asia the value of gold in Asia

and Europe.and Europe.

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Who was Sunni Ali?Who was Sunni Ali?

This is the Songhai ruler This is the Songhai ruler who captured the city of who captured the city of

Tombouctou in 1468.Tombouctou in 1468.

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Who were the Karanga Who were the Karanga people?people?

These African people built These African people built the Great Zimbabwe.the Great Zimbabwe.

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What were the Mali, What were the Mali, Ghana and the Songhai Ghana and the Songhai

kingdomskingdoms

These were the three African These were the three African kingdoms of Western Africakingdoms of Western Africa

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What was Swahili?What was Swahili?

This is the language and This is the language and culture of eastern Africa culture of eastern Africa coast, a combination of coast, a combination of

Bantu, Persian and Arabic.Bantu, Persian and Arabic.

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What was the Kingdom of What was the Kingdom of Cush?Cush?

This is the African kingdom This is the African kingdom that reached its height from that reached its height from

250 B.C to A.D. 150 and 250 B.C to A.D. 150 and conquered Egypt.conquered Egypt.

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What was Tombouctou?What was Tombouctou?

This city was the Mali This city was the Mali capital and a center of capital and a center of

Muslim learning.Muslim learning.

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What was Gao?What was Gao?

This was the capital and This was the capital and important trading city of the important trading city of the

Songhai kingdom.Songhai kingdom.

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Who were the Pueblo?Who were the Pueblo?

They were the Native They were the Native Americans of the southwest Americans of the southwest who built their dwellings of who built their dwellings of sun dried bricks or adobe. sun dried bricks or adobe.

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Who were the Olmecs, Who were the Olmecs, Chavin and Toltecs?Chavin and Toltecs?

These three Native American These three Native American groups preceded the Incas groups preceded the Incas

and the Aztecs. and the Aztecs.

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Who were the Mayans?Who were the Mayans?

They were the Native They were the Native Americans of the Yucatan Americans of the Yucatan

Peninsula who developed a Peninsula who developed a sophisticated calendar and sophisticated calendar and counting system based on counting system based on

20 that included 0.20 that included 0.

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Who was Quetzalcoatl?Who was Quetzalcoatl?

He was the feathered He was the feathered serpent God of both the serpent God of both the

Aztecs and Toltecs.Aztecs and Toltecs.

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What are Machu Pichu and What are Machu Pichu and Cuzco ?Cuzco ?

These two cities were These two cities were important in Incan culture, important in Incan culture,

one hidden deep in the one hidden deep in the Andes and the other city Andes and the other city

the capital meaning “city of the capital meaning “city of the Sun” the Sun”

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What were Chinampas?What were Chinampas?These were the floating These were the floating islands that the Aztecs islands that the Aztecs used to grow food and used to grow food and

support a population in the support a population in the millions at the time of the millions at the time of the

Spanish arrival in the Spanish arrival in the Americas.Americas.

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What is matrilineal or a What is matrilineal or a matrilineal society?matrilineal society?

This the tradition in many This the tradition in many African and Native African and Native

American cultures of American cultures of tracing the ancestry tracing the ancestry through the mothers.through the mothers.

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What are tropical rain What are tropical rain forests?forests?

These are the areas of the These are the areas of the world that receive more world that receive more than 100 inches of rain than 100 inches of rain

each year.each year.

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What was quipu?What was quipu?

This was the Incan knotted This was the Incan knotted string used to remember string used to remember

important events.important events.

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What are lingiuists?What are lingiuists?

These professionals study These professionals study the history and traditions the history and traditions

of languages.of languages.