Africa vocabulary quiz

The worlds longest river, flowing over 4,000 miles through the Sudan Basin into Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt.

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Nunavut

• Nile River

• Fault

The largest desert in the world, stretching over 3,000 miles across the African continent form the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.

• Sahel desert

• Sahara

• Peat

• Seoul

Delta of the Niger River and an area of Nigeria with rich oil deposits.

• Niger Delta

• Kenya Delta

• Uganda Delta

• African Delta

One of the leaders of the African National Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in South Africa.

• Masai

• Muhammad Ali

• Nelson Mandela

• Mobutu

Conference of 14 European Nations held on 1884-1885 in Berlin Germany, to establish rules for political control of Africa.

• Berlin Conference

• Germany Conference

• United Nations Meeting

• UN Council

One in which people use lineages, or families whose members are descended from a common ancestor, to govern themselves.

• Kingdom society

• stateless society

• suburb

• subsistence economy

An important trading capital from the 1^st through the 8^th centuries A.D. in what is now Ethiopia.

• Bantu

• Carthage

• Pandemic

• Aksum

One of the great empires of ancient Africa, situated on a triangular peninsula on the gulf of Tunis in the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

• Benelux

• Carthage

• Chernozem

• Canadian Shield

A state founded in the 15^th century by a man named Mutota and that extended throughout all of present day Zimbabwe except the eastern part.

• Mobutu

• Nomad

• Niger Delta

• Mutapa Empire

A policy of complete separation of the races, instituted by the white minority government of South Africa.

• Apartheid

• Great Zimbabwe

• Diversify

• Beringia