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World History and Cultures
Quiz 5
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History
10th Grade
10/03/2012

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Lake Victoria
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Africa's largest lake and is the source of the Nile River
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Frumentius
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One of the missionaries from Rome that were taken to Ethiopia
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Cush
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Kingdom of the greatest civilization in Africa interior
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Timbuktu
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Important center of trade, was a famous learning center of learning and culture in the Mali Empire
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Great Rift Valley
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largest rift in the earth's surface
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Animism
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Belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits
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Ethiopian eunuch
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First African on record to become a Christian
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Clement
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Wrote the oldest surviving Christian hymn
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Mansa Musa
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Greatest ruler of the Mali Empire
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Simon of Cyrene
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Man remembered for carrying Jesus' cross
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