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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.”

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PLACE Africa’s tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro,towers above northeastern Tanzania as a girafferoams the grassy plain below.

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