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Africa SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Ancient Egypt
p.17

Africa is a very hot continent, and a lot of the landscape ▸ ▸ Conservation p.72
is made up of deserts and dry plains. Its central region is ▸ ▸ Deserts p.78
covered in rain forest. This continent was home to the ▸ ▸ Early humans p.82

first people on Earth millions of years ago. ▸ ▸ Language p.144
▸ ▸ World p.275

The Tuareg live in
the desert. They
wear traditional
blue robes. Temple of Zeus
Pyramids
Tamarisk
tree

Bedouin camel train
Bedouin people use
Addax Tuareg camels to move
people goods across the
Sahara Desert.
The horns Jerboa
of this rare
antelope can
grow to 47 in Zebra
(120 cm) long. African
elephant Benin Lion
bronzes Okapi

African animals Bonobo
About Africa is home to many Diamonds
Africa types of animals. Large Acacia
areas have been set up Mount Kilimanjaro tree Lemurs live on
the island of
where they can roam Madagascar.
Population: freely and safely. Tourists Grey
1.216 billion go to watch them parrot
in the wild. Leopard

Giraffes are the
Highest point:
Mount Kilimanjaro world’s tallest animals,
with males reaching
18 ft (5.5 m). Victoria Falls
Lemur
Lowest point: African
Lake Assal elephants are
the heaviest Giraffe
land animals. Fossils of human Ancient pyramids
ancestors The pyramids in Egypt were
Biggest desert:
Sahara Desert built 4,500 years ago. Inside
Table Mountain are the tombs of Egyptian
rulers called pharaohs.
Longest river: The pyramids are made
Nile of millions of stone
blocks that were cut
and dragged into place.

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