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| An open usually circular vessel with sloping or curving sides used typically for holding water for washing |
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| flows more than 4,000 miles through Uganda and Sudan and into Egypt. |
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| created by the moving apart of the continental plates, present in East Africa, stretching over 4,000 miles from Jordan in Southwest Asia to Mozambique in South Africa. |
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| A volcano in Tanzania in Africa, also Africa's highest peak. |
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| a steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top |
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| The largest desert in the world, stretching 3,000 miles across the Africa continent. From the Atlantic ocean to the Red sea, and measuring 1,200 miles from north to south. |
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| An underground layer of rock that stores water. |
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| a place where water from an aquifer has reached the surface; it supports vegetation and wildlife. |
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| The area encompassing the tops of the trees in a rain forest, about 150 feet above ground. |
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| an area that has rich oil deposits. |
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| a narrow band of dry grassland, running east to west on the southern edge of the Sahara, that is used for farming and herding. |
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| an expansion of dry conditions to moist areas that are next to deserts. |
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| on the Nile River in Egypt, completed in 1970, which increased Egypt's farmable land by 50 percent and protected it from droughts and floods. |
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| loose sedimentary material containing very small rock particles, formed by river deposits and very fertile. |
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| a sit of fossile beds in northern Tanzania, containing the most continuous known record of humanity over the past 2 million years, including fossils from 65 hominids. |
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| An important trading capital from the first to the eighth centuries A.D. in what now Ethiopia; it flourished due to its location near the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. |
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| A conference that established rules for political control of Africa. |
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| used for direct sale, and not for use in a region, such as coffee, tea, and sugar in Africa. |
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| a disease affecting a large population over a wide geographic area. |
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| One of the great empires of ancient Africa, situted on a triangular peninsula on the Gulf of Tunis on the coast of the Mediterrean Sea. |
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| a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, and the biggest cultural and religious influence in North Africa. |
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| a kind of popular Algerian music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children that is fast-paced with danceable rhythms; was sometimes used as a form of rebellion to expose political unhappiness. |
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| an island off the coast of Senegal that served as a major departure point for slaves during the slave trade. |
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| one in which people use lineages, or families whose members are descended from a common ancestor, to govern themselves. |
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| A people who live in what is now Ghana, in West Africa, and who are known for their artful weaving of colorful asasia, or kente cloth. |
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| This group of peoples went southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 B.C. to around A.D.1000 |
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| opended on the African interior to European trade along the Congo River and by 1884 controlled the area known as the Congo Free State. |
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| the leader of Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from its independance the 1960s until 1997. He brought the country's businesses uner national control, profited from the reorganization, and used the army to hold power. |
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| carved boxes containing the skulls and bones of deceased ancestors, created by the Fang, who live in Gabon, southern Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea. |
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| a city established by the Shona around 1000; it became the capital of a thriving gold-trading area. |
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| a state founded in the 15th century by a man named Mutota and that extended throughout all of present-day Zimbabwe except the eastern part. |
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| A policy of complete seperation of the races, instituted by the white minority government of South Africa in 1948. |
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| one of the leaders of the African National Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the first all-race election in South Africa. |
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| an agricultural or mining product that can be sold. |
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| to increase the variety of products in a country's economy; to promote manufacturing and other industries in order to achieve growth and stability. |
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| A disease caused by human immune deficiency virus |
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| a treatable infectious disease that can be fatal and is caused by a lack of adequate sanitation and a clean water supply. |
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| a respiratory infection spread by human contact, which oftern accompanies AIDS. |
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| A program studies the world's AIDS epidemic. |
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| A country that relies on one principal export for much of its earnings. |
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| An infectious disease of the red blood cells, carried by mosquitoes, that is characterized by chills, fever, and sweating. |
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