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Africa is the second largest continent and the second largest population out of all the continents. Africa covers about a fifth of the earth’s land. For millions of years the colossal continents have separated. This change to the earth is now referred as the continental drift.
In Africa the hippopotamus is the killer animal, it kills more humans than a lion or any other massive animal. Most male hippos lie against the end of the river banks. Most females just anticipate any type of threat against the young. Africa is the hottest continents on Earth and Cairo is the continent's largest city. It has the temperature of staying above 100 degrees fahrenheit. African women make most of the jewelry and some materials they use in grass, egg shells, …show more content…

Over 1,270 humongous dams have been made along the continents variety of rivers. Lake Victoria is the largest river located in Africa and it is also the second freshwater in the entire world. Most Africans play sports such as boxing, track, rugby, cricket, and football known as (soccer). In Africa they speak over 2,000 different languages that they speak. Most Africans are either a Christian or Islam. Abrahamic religions are widespread across Africa. 41% of children in Africa are going through child labour. People in Africa have to haul about 3.6 miles for a bucket of water. South Africa is called the rainbow nation because it has 11 official …show more content…

South Africa is the world's 24th nation with the highest population. The largest animal in Africa is the elephant and the elephant is endangered for that 100 elephants are killed a day. The tallest animal is the giraffe and it is not one of the endangered animals. Also sadly African lions are endangered to. People kill animals for fur, to make blankets, architects, and plenty more. From all over the world over 3,000 children die from diseases. The order from the 7 continents from greatest to least is Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica. South Africa is 6 hours ahead of Virginia. Most African Americans have short hair because during school there hair won't be a distraction but, most girls don't really care about their hair because at a young age they don't care about beauty either. They will also get hot when the temperature gets really high and they will have a lot of hair to deal

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Africa Before European Arrival DBQ Some of the earliest humans lived in Africa. Though time, Africans have developed their way of living and has established their own successes, such as city-states and empires. Even though there is only a little knowledge of the early civilizations in Africa, the achievements of the African empires, kingdoms, and cities before the arrival of the Europeans brought both East and West Africa to prosper, due to its geography, culture, and successful trade. Like all ancient civilizations that continued to develop, Africa has grown to survive and move forward. To begin, Africa is the second largest continent in the world.

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This is all based on document A “ Partition of Africa, 1884-85”. The first point is that there were seven European countries taking parts of Africa and they were the British, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Belgian, and the Spanish. These countries all took a part in this “taking” of Africa. And it was very dangerous for the African community because they were being taking over as if they were a useless community . But the two main countries of this “taking” were the British and French, and they both took about 70-75% of Africa and that is a ginormous number.

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From 1500 to 1750, there were changes and continuities on the ways Sub-Saharan Africa participated in interregional trade. The major turning point of Sub-Saharan Africa’s participation is the start the slave trade in West Africa. This event impacted the New World, Europe and SE Asia because Europe profited from the exploitation of Africans to the New World, Southeast Asia experienced a decline in population because of the start of the slave trade between Southern Africa and Indonesia, and the New World became more profitable as plantations where slaves worked grew. The overall continuity of Sub-Saharan Africa’s participation in trade is the European dominance in the region because of the Age of Exploration led by the Portuguese and Spanish.

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Geoff and Janet Benge wrote Rowland Bingham: Into Africa’s interior. It tells the true story of the missionary Rowland Bingham, and how he spread the gospel through Africa, and ultimately the world. In fact, by the time of his death in 1942, there was not a single region on earth that his faith had not touched. Through Rowland’s life, the readers can learn that God always provides and that it is important to persevere through hard times.

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Throughout time diverse regions have considered other societies to be barbaric, causing them to have the desire of “civilizing” them. Many individuals accept the rule of a higher and civilized region as they believe that their alterations will benefit them. Although, by enabling a higher power to acquire authority in another foreign nation, will diminish that regions culture and individuals will not truly possess respect, ultimately causing them to rebel against that foreign power after they comprehend their true nature. Likewise, after the Berlin Conference, which set certain rules for the partition of Africa, numerous European powers desired in colonizing Africa and obtaining control during the early 1800s, which was known as the Scramble

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These three factors helped Medieval Africa grow and advance with the rest of the world. They also helped Africa advance in trade and agriculture. Africa has many rivers and large bodies of water that run through it but one river that stands out is the Nile river. The Nile river is commonly known as the longest river in the world and travels throughout most of Africa. The Nile river provided medieval Africa with a great way to trade and travel

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Africa is known as the origin of the human race. Since that is the case, Africa has had the most opportunities to impress the modern world. Africa has done just that. Africa had three major kingdoms, each of which were major successes. Throughout history, Africa’s kingdoms have utilized their natural resources to become some of the most prosperous kingdoms the world has ever seen.

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South Africa has been famously referred to as the “rainbow nation” because of its variety of people, cultures and religions. The people follow many spiritual traditions and religious faiths. In South Africa the constitution protects freedom of religion. Everyone is free to follow whatever faith they want to, or not to follow one at all. People are encouraged to learn about and respect different spiritual practices.

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Africa is typically thought of as being a continent full of violence and revolution. This concept may have originated from the poor treatment of Africans by the rest of the world through colonization, forced labor in Africa, and the enslaving of Africans in other regions of the world. The danger and violence that stemmed from many countries gaining independence and experiencing political upheaval has been thwarted by peacekeeping efforts from outside agencies, like the United Nations. Africa has had a violent past, but only because of the exploitation by the Europeans, and eventually Americans. Ultimately, their ethnocentrism led to violence and the stereotype of danger in Africa.

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