1. Africa Review Political Map

2. Africa Review Physical Map

3. Africa Mary Leakey believed human life began in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa

4. Africa Diverse topography (geography) in Africa created many diverse cultures in Africa.

5. Africa Most Africans live in the grasslands known as the Savanna

6. Africa The Sahel Region of Africa suffers from Desertification, the process of the desert getting bigger, due to overgrazing among other factors.

7. The Bantu Migrations spread the Bantu culture, LANGUAGE, and metal working skills throughout Africa. -The Bantu were herders -The Bantu practiced slash and burn farming Africa

8. West African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, Songhai, and Timbuktu were all successful because of location and control of the salt and gold trade.

9. Africa Mansa Musa was a King from Mali, who controlled a great deal of gold, spread Islam, education, and made a pilgrimage to Mecca.

10. Africa East African Kingdoms of Somalia, Mogadishu, and Axum also controlled key trade routes and were great trading centers.

11. Africa Africa was decimated by the Slave trade in the 1500s. The trade route bringing African slaves to the Americas was called the Middle Passage.

12. Africa Facts about the Slave Trade