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Chapter 8
Africa
Term | Definition |
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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 |