Africa

3. Its average elevation is about 2,200 ft (670 m), but elevations range from 19,340 ft (5,895 m) at ________ __________ to 515 ft (157 m) below sea level at Lake Assal.
4. The power of the region returned the following century to the __________ Empire.
6. Nubia and Ethiopia were taken, but an expedition sent by ______ to uncover the beginning of the Nile failed.
8. Dutch (Boer) migrations began in the 17th century, and the _________ first settled in what is now Kenya and Zimbabwe in the 19th century.
12. The _________ explored the western coast in the 15th century
14. Megaliths found on ______ ______ are examples of what probably were the first archaeo-astronomical instruments in the world, some 1000 years before the Stonehenge
15. Meanwhile, others talk of a movement of great numbers of people around the _______ before the beginning of the desertification.

1. Their disappearance with the rise of dynastic ______ later permitted the rise of kings like Kush, Kerma, and Meroe, which in conjunction they understood what is occasionally called Nubia.
2. Carthage, founded around the year 814 BC, grew quickly until it was unmatched in the ___________.
5. Northern Africans speak a family of languages known as _____-______.
7. Anatomically modern ________ are believed to have appeared about 100,000 years ago in the eastern region of sub-Saharan Africa.
9. The city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and under the command of the Ptolemaic _________ dynasty, he made attempts to penetrate south and, from this, obtained some information about Ethiopia.
10. Archeological discoveries show that the primitive ______ lived along the Nile long before Pharaoh rule began.
11. While northern Africa was dominated by the ________ for several centuries, the first known empire in western Africa was Ghana
13. The Pyramids of Giza (close to ______), which were constructed during the 4th dynasty, gave faith to the power of religion and Pharaoh rule.