Africa: Continent and Peoples

_________________cover a little less than half of Africa

• Wetlands

• Savannahs

• Desert

• Oceans

When a desert expands and turns areas that were not desert into desert land. (The Sahara is doing this!) What is this called?

• Desert Expanding

• Ocean Expansion

• Desertification

• Savanahification

What occupation was common south of the Sahara Desert?

• Fishing

• Herding

• Hunting

• Farming

Another name for the area of Egypt and Sudan

• Nubia

• Gold Area

• The Nile

• Africa

Kingdom lived around 1,000 to 2,000 BC in Northern Africa and Egypt

• Nobia

• Nubia

• Kush

• King

How did the Kush empire fall?

• Plague

• Nubia ate all their food

• Nobia attacked from the south

• The Romans found out they had dragons and took them

What is significant about the Nok Culture?

• There is no history of them except for broken pieces of art.

• They kept a perfect written history

• They are still alive today.

• They invaded and took over Africa.

The Bantu were known as

• Nomadic (The Moved around)

• Terrible fighters

• Stationary (They didn't move around)

• The oldest African civilization

What river is located in Africa?

• The Mississippi

• The Amazon

• The Ohio

• The Nile

Put the correct labels in the correct spots on the map

a

b

c

d

e

Kalahari Desert

The Area of Nubia

Mt. Kilimanjaro

The Sahara Desert

Great Rift Valley