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Unit 5 -- Africa
East Africa
Vocabulary #1:
cataract, cash crop, diversify, economy, elevation, escarpment,
fertile, irrigate, nomad, oasis, plateau, rift, savanna, silt, subsistence
farming,
tributary
Vocabulary #2: hunter-gatherer, Louis Leakey, domesticate, surplus, civilization, city-state, desertification
Vocabulary #3: plantation, vassal, refugee, shamba
Click here for a copy of the East Africa worksheets (21-3, 23-1, and 23-2)
North Africa
Vocabulary #1: pharaoh, dynasty, hieroglyphics, papyrus, peasant
Click here for a copy of the "Questions on the Importance of the Nile River"
Vocabulary #2: culture, cultural diffusion, fellaheen, bazaar, Torah, Quran, souq, casbah, terrace
Click here for a copy of the North Africa Worksheets (21-1, 22, and 22 Main Ideas)
West Africa
Vocabulary #1: ethnic group, migrate, pilgrimage, colonize, nationalism, Pan-Africanism,
boycott, census, cultural diversity
Vocabulary #2: kinship, nuclear family, lineage, clan, griot, multi-ethnic, Kwame Nkrumah,
sovereignty, coup
Central & Southern Africa
Vocabulary #1: migrant worker, democracy, discriminate, homelands, nationalize, apartheid, authoritarian,
Nelson Mandela, Mobutu Sese Seko, Afrikaners
Other Topics:
Egyptian Mythology
(Click here for
the Egyptian Mythology Exercise.)
Making African Masks
Dynasties of Egypt
Importance of the Nile
Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
Using Egyptian Hieroglyphics