Africa's Geography & The Atlantic Slave Trade

Africa is the ___ largest continent in the world.

Africa is made up of ___ countries.

Africa is divided into ___ geopolitical regions.

Today, there are estimated to be about ___ ethnic groups living in Africa.

True or False: Historically, Africa is the cradle of humanity and the oldest site of human inhabitation.

The shaded yellow region represents which desert?

The Sahel is the semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to Sudan. Which is not an African country that makes up the Sahel?

Underneath the west and central sides of Africa is the Congo River Basin, which is mostly made up of which type of biome?

From the 10th through the 16th centuries, slave markets in areas bordering the (a)   featured Christian Slavs from the Eastern Adriatic and the Black Sea, as well as those from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.

The ​ ​ (a)   in North Africa and the Middle East drew millions of slaves through trade with ​ (b)   ​.