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... Geography
Features : Mediterranean, Açores, Canary Islands, Madeira, Atlas Mountains, Sahara Desert, Nile, Red Sea
Cities/Oases : Adrar, Alexandria, Algiers, Cairo, Carthago/Tunis, Casablanca, Ceuta, Constantinople, Cordoba, Damascus, Jerusalem, Kairouan, Kufra, Madeira, Marrakech, Rome, Tripolis



Establish the chronological order of these maps. Any idea which point in time they show ?

Historical States : Carthaginian Empire, Ancient Egypt, Caliphate (first Umayyad, then Abbasid), Almoravid Dynasty, Almohad Dynasty, Fatimid Dynasty, Ayyubid Dynasty, Mamluk Dynasty, Morocco, Ottoman Empire

Colonial Period 1880-195)es : Spanish Sahara, Spanish Morocco, French Morocco, (French) Algeria, Tunisia, (Italian) Libya, (British) Egypt, Sudan

Modern States : Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan. Ceuta, Melilla, Canary Islands Spanish, Madeira Portuguese

Religions : Islam (introduced in the 7th century; conversion of local population from 7th to 10th centuries with minorities still Jewish or Christian (Egyprian Copts)

Major events in North African History :
Establishment of Carthago c. 800 BC
Assyrian conquest of Egypt 664 BC
Destruction of Carthago 146 BC
Catholic Christianity declared exclusive state religion in Roman Empire 395 AD
Arab conquesat of Spain 711
Fatimid conquest of Egypt 969
Portuguese conquest of Ceuta 1415
Algiers places itself under Ottoman protection, ousts Spanish 1510
Ottoman conquest of Egypt 1517
Begin of Modernization of Egypt 1805
Begin of French colonization of Algeria 1830
Completion of Suez Canal 1869
British takeover of Egypt 1882
Coup in Egypt establishes control of progressive military (Nasser) 1952
Algeria independent, exodus of colons and collaborators 1962

COUNTRY POPULATION
1800 1900 1950 2000 2009
Egypt 003,854,000 010,186,000 020,330,000 062,694,000 081,527,000
Algeria n.d. 004,675,000 008,753,000 031,193,000 034,361,000
Morocco n.d. 003,800,000 008,953,000 030,367,000 034,343,000
Libya n.d. 000,422,000 001,029,000 005,115,000 006,276,000



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First posted on December 12th 2009

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