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37 Cards in this Set
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Mount Kilimanjaro |
Africa's highest peak |
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Africa |
second largest continent |
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Suez Canal |
divides Africa and Asia |
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Madagascar |
world's fourth largest island |
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"Dark Continent" |
Africa |
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Kingdom of Cush |
greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior |
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Ethiopian Eunuch |
first recorded African Christian |
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Kingdom of Aksum |
Africa's first and Greatest Christian kingdom |
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King Lalibela |
carved ten churches from stone |
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Athanasius the Great |
African leader who boldly proclaimed Jesus is God |
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Timbuktu |
famous center of learning |
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Aesop |
Greek slave who wrote famous fables |
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James Bruce |
first European explorer of Africa |
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Robert Moffat |
Scottish pioneer missionary |
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Kalahari Desert |
the largest desert region in Southern Africa |
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David Livingstone |
Africa's most famous explore |
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"smoke that thunders'' |
Victoria Falls |
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Victoria Falls |
Africa's largest waterfall |
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Victoria Falls |
one of the greatest natural wonders of the world |
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Henry Stanley |
American newspaper reporter |
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''Dr. Livingstone, I presume" |
Henry Stanley |
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Congo River |
the world's second largest river in the volume of water it carries |
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Khama |
great Batswana Chief |
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Liberia |
Africa's first black republic |
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Samuel Crowther |
first black bishop of the Church of England |
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Marry Slessor |
Queen of Cannibals |
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altitude |
the height above sea level |
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sea level |
the level of sea waters |
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mountain range |
long row of mountains |
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peak |
pointed top of a mountain |
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summit |
highest peak of a mountain |
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dormant |
describes and inactive volcano |
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Mt. Everest |
world's highest peak |
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Mt. McKinley |
North America's highest peak |
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Elbrus |
Europe's highest peak |
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Matterhorn |
climbed by daring mountaineers |
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Monte Blanc |
Alp's highest peak |