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PREVIEW: TODAY’SISSUES IN AFRICA
UNIT ATLAS
Chapter 18PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHYThe PlateauContinent
Chapter 19HUMAN GEOGRAPHYFrom HumanBeginnings toNew Nations
Chapter 20TODAY’S ISSUESAfrica
EFFECTS OF
COLONIALISM
LOCATIONA man prays
in front of the
pyramids at
Giza in Egypt.
MOVEMENTPeople travel to
a market outside
of Mali’s Great
Mosque in Djenné.
The mosque is
one of the world’s
largest mud-brick
buildings.
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REGION Around 650 million of Africa’s 800
million people live south of the Sahara. They are
divided into more than 800 ethnic groups, each
with its own language, religion, and culture.
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONRoughly two-thirds of all Africans live in rural
areas or small villages and earn a living as
farmers.
PLACE The ancient Romans called the continent
Africa, possibly from the Latin aprica, meaning
“sunny,” or the Greek aphrike, meaning “without
cold.”
For more information on Africa . . .
AFR
ICA
PLACE Africa’s tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro,towers above northeastern Tanzania as a girafferoams the grassy plain below.
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