Question | Answer |
Tributary | Smaller river that connects to a larger river |
Fertile | Soil that is rich in nutrients and is best suitable for farming |
Cataract | Rock filled rapids that slow or prevent water flow and travel down a river. |
Rift | A deep trench |
Transportation Barrier | Physical or human features that make it difficult to travel or transport goods |
Cash Crop | A crop that is grown and sold for a profit |
Subsistence Farming | Farming only what you need |
Oasis | A place where underground water makes it possible to support life in a dry region. |
Arid | Dry desert like environment, i.e. Sahara Desert |
Largest desert in the world | Sahara Desert |
Bantu Migration | Allow for spread of technology and farming to central and southern africa |
Fertile Crescent | Most fertile or nutrient rich soil in the middle east and northern africa |
Three rivers of the Fertile Crescent | Nile, Euphrates, Tigris (N.E.T.) |
Griots | African historians and storytellers; they were responsible for passing down knowledge to future generations. |
Suez Canal | Transportation corridor that connects mediterranean sea to red sea. It allowed for easier travel from europe to asia. |
Aftermath of European Colonization | Natural resources taken, ethnic conflict created, military governments established |
Plateau | Large raised mostly flat land, i.e. Continent of Africa. |
Practice and Ritual of Islam | Five Pillars |
Practice and Ritual of Christianity | Holy Sacraments |
Practice and Ritual of Judaism | Yom Kippur |
Holy Book of Christianity | Holy Bible |
Holy Book of Islam | Quran, (Koran) |
Holy Book of Judaism | Torah |
Mesopatamia | Fertile land between Euphrates and Tigris |
Middle East Conflict | Conflict between Jews and Palestinians over the holy land of Israel, lasting for nearly 3,000 years |
Zionism | Belief in forming a Jewish state in Israel |
Kwame Nkrumah | fought, boycotted, and was jailed by the British to earn independence for Ghana. |
Nelson Mandela | Elected president of South Africa in 1994, fought to end Apartheid. |
Apartheid | The racial segregation of blacks and whites in the country of South Africa during the 20th century. |
Swahili | A mix of Bantu and Arab languages |
Rwanda Genocide | the deliberate killing of thousands of Tutsis by Hutus during the 1990s |
Civilization | a group that shares, customs, religion, or language |