World History › Section G · The ancient Americas and Africa › Topic G.4
Africa's geography and climate
Africa is the second-largest continent and the one where humans have lived longest, and its environments range from rainforest to the world's largest hot desert. This topic maps those environments and shows how rainfall, disease and landscape shaped the ways its peoples lived.
In this topic
- A continent of mirrored bands
- The equatorial rainforest
- The savannas and the tsetse fly
- The Sahel
- Worked example: reading a rainfall map
- The Sahara, green and dry
- Deserts and coasts of the south and north
- Highlands and great lakes
- Foragers of forest and desert
- Worked example: reading San rock art
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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