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The civilizations of Africa usually include Egypt, Carthage, Axum, Numidia, and Nubia, but may also be extended to the prehistoric Land of Punt and others: Kingdom of Dagbon, the Empire of Ashanti, Kingdom of Kongo, Empire of Mali, Kingdom of Zimbabwe, Songhai Empire, the Garamantes the Empire of Ghana, Bono state, Harla Kingdom, etc.

African Civilizations
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1. Largest desert in the world
Image: Sahara

2. A musical group from present-day Mali. In an unusual twist, both performers lost their eyesight at a young age.

3. An area of ground, such as
the land that makes up a country
Image: land area

4. The Christian state in Africa that developed its own branch of Christianity, Coptic Christianity, because it was cut off from other Christians due to a large Muslim presence in Africa.
Image: Axum

5. the longest river in West Africa, and a kind of trading highway in early times
Image: Niger River

6. an extended family unit that has combined into a larger community
Image: lineage groups

7. a city in southeastern Kenya, located on a small coastal island
Image: Mombasa

8. By about 400 b.c., the _____ people of North Africa found ways to cross the Sahara to West Africa.

9. In recent years, scientists have found some of the earliest human fossils in the _____ _____ _____.

10. in the 600's led a fight in what is present-day Mauritania against Muslim invaders.
Image: Queen Dahia al-Kahina

11. First great ruler of Songhai, who established the empire
Image: Sunni Ali

12. Large ships favored by Indian, Persian, and Arab sailors that could carry up to four hundred tons of cargo.
Image: Dhows

13. Capital of Somalia
Image: Mogadishu

14. Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Image: Ibn Battuta

15. to change from one form to another
Image: convert

16. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana
Image: Kalahari Desert

17. a spoken record of past events
Image: oral history

18. carried from one place to another

19. touching or meeting; association; connection
Image: contact

20. The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around.
Image: Nile River

21. assemblages of different populations that live together in a defined area
Image: Communities

22. Africans armed with European _____ began raiding villages to seize captives to sell.

23. almost the same
Image: similar

24. A member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt
Image: Berbers

25. A West African storyteller
Image: Griot

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