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| How big is Africa? | 4,600 miles across and 5,000 miles N to S; second largest continent in the world: 11.7 million square miles. |
| How much of Africa is deserts? | 40% of the continent |
| What are the largest deserts in Africa? | The Sahara in the north; Kalahari in south. |
| What are the partly uninhabitable areas of Africa? | Sahara Desert, Kalahari Desert,rain forests. |
| In what area do most people in Africa live? | They live on the savannas, grassy plains. |
| How much area in Africa do savannas cover? | over 40% of the continent |
| What are the major crops grown on savannas? | sorghum, millet, rice, wheat, maize |
| What is desertification? | It's the changing of fertile land into desert. |
| Where did the first humans appear? | in the Great Rift Valley that runs through the floor of the REd Sea and across eastern Africa |
| What is the lifestyle of the San of the Kalahari Desert? | They are hunter-gatherers, living as nomads. |
| What's the lifestyle of herders, or pastoralists? | They keep cattle,goats, sheep; nomads who move to find water & pastures for livestock. |
| How do the Masai measure their wealth? | by the size of their herds |
| When did agriculture begin? | It started by 10,000 B.C. in Africa. |
| How did the Sahara change around 4000 B.C.? | Between 8000-4000 B.C. the Sahara had increased rainfall & turned into a savannah; then it began to dry up. |
| What was impact of agriculture on African lifestyles? | It allowed them to settle in one location; it meant healtheir lives & an increased birthrate; more food let people do work other than farming (metal; pottery; jewelry); organized communities arose. |
| What was the basic social unit of groups south of the Sahara? | the extended family |
| What is a "clan"? | a group that shared common ancestors |
| What's animism? | It's a religion involving spirits that help regulate daily life. They are present in animals, plants, natural forces & can take form of souls of dead ancestors. |
| What are griots? | storytellers who passed history, literature, culture on to other generations |
| What is Djenne-Djeno? | an old city uncovered by archeologists on the Niger River.gists;it |
| What was discovered at the Djenne dig? | Artifacts including pottery, copper hair ornaments, clay toys, glass beads, stone bracelets, iron knives |
| What is Nok? (198) | Africa's earliest known culture that lived in current Nigeria (500 B.C.-A.D. 200) |
