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Africa-East
Holt Chapter 22
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| rift valleys | places on Earth's surface where the crust stretches until it breaks |
| Great Rift Valley | largest rift on Earth actually made up of an eastern and a western |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | the highest point in all of Africa rises to 19,340 feet in East Africa |
| Serengeti Plain | located in Tanzania; one of the largest areas of flatland |
| Lake Victoria | supplies the water that flows into the White Nile |
| droughts | periods when little rain falls and when crops are damaged |
| Nubia | Christianity spread here from Egypt and Ethiopia |
| Zanzibar | island where slave-trading occurred in the late 1700s |
| imperialism | a practice that tries to dominate other countries' governments, trade and culture |
| safari | an overland journey to view African wildlife |
| geothermal energy | produced from the heat of Earth's interior |
| genocide | the intentional destruction of a people |
| Darfur | a region of Sudan that recently experienced genocide |
| Mogadishu | a Somalian city where recent violence and control rights have been an issue |
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