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Chapter 8
Africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mount Kilimanjaro | Africa's highest peak |
| Suez Canal | divides Africa from Asia |
| Madagascar | world's fourth largest island |
| Mizraim, Phut, and Cush | Ham's sons |
| Kingdom of Cush | the greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior |
| Ethiopian Eunuch | the first recorded African Christian |
| Kingdom of Aksum | Africa's first and greatest Christian Kingdom |
| King Lalibela | carved ten churches from solid rock |
| malaria, yellow fever, and sleeping sickness | dangerous tropical diseases |
| James Bruce | first European explorer of Africa |
| Kalahari Desert | the largest desert region of Southern Africa |
| David Livingstone | greatest of all African explorers and one of the most famous explorers in history |
| Victoria Falls | Africa's largest waterfall |
| Congo River | the worlds second largest river is the volume of water it carries |
| Liberia | Africa's first black republic |
| Samuel Crowther | first black bishop the Church of England had ever had |
| Mary Slessor | queen of the cannibals |
| frumentius | an early leader of the Ethiopian orthodox church |