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The region just south of Egypt.

What is Nubia?

1,2

The Nile River, the Red Sea and the

Mediterranean Sea were used for this.

What is transportation?

1,3

More than 40% of the African continent

is covered by this.

What are savannahs?

1,4

The process of moving from one location to another.

What is migration?

2,1

This is the capital of Kush.

What is Meroe?

2,2

The main trading port of Aksum.

What is Adulis?

2,3

This speeds up the process of

desertification.

What is human activities?

2,4

The technique of cutting down trees and burning them.

What is slash-and-burn?

3,1

The area that Piankhi, the Kushite king gain

control of Egypt with.

What is Memphis?

3,2

Ezana changed Aksum’s religion to this.

What is Christianity?

3,3

This group from Africa manufactured iron.

What are the Nok?

3,4

They were storytellers.

What are griots?

4,1

The heating of Earth’s crust to separate the elements

it contains.

What is smelting?

4,2

This area of land is shaped like a rhinoceros horn.

What is the Horn of Africa?

4,3

This language had the most influence on

other African languages.

What are the Bantu?

4,4

The belief that everything possesses a soul.

What is animism?

5,1

This area produced a lot of iron.

What is Meroe?

5,2

These were the most impressive

achievements of Aksum.

What are the Pillars of Aksum?

5,3

This is the reason the Bantu migration was slow.

What is the fact that they lived there for awhile?

5,4

Because the soil was difficult for farming many people

used this instead.

What are herders?