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Africa Geo 18-19

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basins   depressions  
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Nile River   world's longest river, flows through Uganda and Sudan and into Egypt  
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rift valleys   thin valleys  
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Lake Tanganyika   the longest freshwater lake in the world  
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Mount Kilimanjaro   Africa's tallest mountain, volcanic  
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escarpment   a steep slope with a nearly flat plateau  
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Sahara   the largest desert in the world, located in North Africa  
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aquifers   huge stores of underground water  
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oasis   where the water from aquifers comes to the surface  
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Serengeti Plain   grassland in norther Tanzania, dry climate, hard soil  
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canopy   the uppermost layer of branches  
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Niger delta   a region that contains most of Nigeria's oil  
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Sahel   "shore of the desert" a narrow band of dry grassland that runs east to west along the southern edge of the Sahara  
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Desertification   an expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts  
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silt   sediment  
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Olduvai Gorge   located in northern Tanzania contained the most continuos known record of humanity  
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Aksum   an important civilization in East Africa  
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Berlin Conference   lay down rules for dividing Africa, not African ruler was invited to attend  
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Masai   an East African ethnic group that lives on the grasslands of the rift valleys in Kenya and Tanzania  
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pandemic   an uncontrollable outbreak of disease affecting a large population over a wide area  
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Carthage   one of the great cities of ancient Africa founded by a Phoenician queen  
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rai   a kind of music  
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Goree Island   one of the busiest points for exporting slaves during the slave trades  
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stateless society   people rely on family lineages to govern themselves rather than an elected government or a monarch  
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Ashanti   known for their kente cloth  
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Bantu migrations   mass migration who moved southward throughout Africa and spread language and culture  
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King Leopold II   king of Belgium who controlled the area of the Congo  
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Mobutu Sese Seko   the Democratic Republic of the Congo's leader  
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Mutapa Empire   extended throughout all of present day Zimbabwe except the eastern part  
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apartheid   complete separation of the races  
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Nelson Mandela   emerged as one of the leader of the ANC, wanted to end apartheid  
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Frederik de Klerk   became president of South Africa at the end of apartheid  
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