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Africa Geo 18-19
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| basins | depressions |
| Nile River | world's longest river, flows through Uganda and Sudan and into Egypt |
| rift valleys | thin valleys |
| Lake Tanganyika | the longest freshwater lake in the world |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | Africa's tallest mountain, volcanic |
| escarpment | a steep slope with a nearly flat plateau |
| Sahara | the largest desert in the world, located in North Africa |
| aquifers | huge stores of underground water |
| oasis | where the water from aquifers comes to the surface |
| Serengeti Plain | grassland in norther Tanzania, dry climate, hard soil |
| canopy | the uppermost layer of branches |
| Niger delta | a region that contains most of Nigeria's oil |
| Sahel | "shore of the desert" a narrow band of dry grassland that runs east to west along the southern edge of the Sahara |
| Desertification | an expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts |
| silt | sediment |
| Olduvai Gorge | located in northern Tanzania contained the most continuos known record of humanity |
| Aksum | an important civilization in East Africa |
| Berlin Conference | lay down rules for dividing Africa, not African ruler was invited to attend |
| Masai | an East African ethnic group that lives on the grasslands of the rift valleys in Kenya and Tanzania |
| pandemic | an uncontrollable outbreak of disease affecting a large population over a wide area |
| Carthage | one of the great cities of ancient Africa founded by a Phoenician queen |
| rai | a kind of music |
| Goree Island | one of the busiest points for exporting slaves during the slave trades |
| stateless society | people rely on family lineages to govern themselves rather than an elected government or a monarch |
| Ashanti | known for their kente cloth |
| Bantu migrations | mass migration who moved southward throughout Africa and spread language and culture |
| King Leopold II | king of Belgium who controlled the area of the Congo |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | the Democratic Republic of the Congo's leader |
| Mutapa Empire | extended throughout all of present day Zimbabwe except the eastern part |
| apartheid | complete separation of the races |
| Nelson Mandela | emerged as one of the leader of the ANC, wanted to end apartheid |
| Frederik de Klerk | became president of South Africa at the end of apartheid |
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