Chapter 20 and 21 Western and Northern Africa

What is the most important body of water in the Sahel?

Sub-Saharan countries have the lowest rate of AIDS of any region in Africa.

Which country of Northern Africa has coasts on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?

Burkina Faso means

What is the most important river in the Sahel?

Because having more than one wife and many children often leads to poverty, polygamy is rare and uncommon in Africa.

The Hausa tribe of Nigeria is predominantly

Which city in Mali, home of Mansa Musa, has become the epitome of a remote and mysterious civilization?

Which two countries of Northern Africa are a transitional zone between Africa and the Middle East?

Which country was the first black republic in Africa?

Shallow salt lakes in the desert are called

An early and valuable commodity traded by the people of Mali for gold was

The culture of what city is a mixture of Arab, French, and Spanish and played an important role in WWII and Hollywood?

Which king of the Mali Empire made a pilgrimage to Mecca with great wealth and a caravan of sixty thousand people'

What does the word Sahara mean?

What fact made Nigeria different from other colonies in Western Africa?

What is the smallest country on the African continent?

After aligning itself with communism and experiencing bloodshed and unrest, which country one of Africa’s most stable?

The Congo River has a discharge volume second only to the Amazon River.

Sierra Leone means

The low Aïr Mountains in the northern part of Niger gives Niger what nickname?

Côte d'Ivoire means

The greatest difficulties facing the countries of the Sahara are the search for water and religious conflicts.

The largest tribe in Western Africa is the Bantu

Which man-made waterway links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?

The early 1800s U.S. Navy fought the Barbary Pirates, were defeated, forcing the United States to pay tribute.

The Sahara is gradually spreading southward.

Ethiopia and Sierra Leone were the only two African nations never colonized by Europeans.

Lake Chad has shrunk to one-twentieth of its former size.

Which ancient empire on the Gold coast controlled the gold trade in the Sahel?

What is the name of the region encompassing Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco?

Areas of drifting, blowing sand in the Sahara south of the Atlas Mountains are called

What narrow body of water separates Morocco from Europe?

The short (average 4'6") people of Africa who have an intimate knowledge of the jungle are known as the Bantu.

Which nation lies four hundred miles west of Senegal and has ten main islands?

Which country had the first openly Marxist government in Africa?

Which city is the westernmost point in Africa in the country of Senegal?

What is the name of the large minority of Christians who have lived in Egypt since shortly after the time of Christ?

The process whereby the grasses and trees of an area die out and are replaced by dry wilderness is called

What is the most populous nation in Africa?

What did Medieval Europeans call the people that have an ancestry of mixed Arab and Berber?

What war between the Igbo people and the Nigerian government ended in an irregular reconciliation?

The only country of the Sahel that has a seacoast is