全球视野下的非洲文化.docVIP

Africa Introduction Africa as one of the cradles of human civilization conceived and created the most glorious early human civilization -the ancient Egyptian civilization. The Nile River in Africa is the cradle of one of the worlds ancient civilizations. Egypt is one of the worlds four ancient civilizations. Ancient Egyptian architecture, sculpture and painting and other arts has made great achievements. Magnificent pyramids and the Sphinx is a masterpiece of the ancient Egyptians, and they are human miracle in the history of architecture. Next, from the following aspects to introduce Africa: African natural features Africa, located in the southwest of Asia, about 30.2 million square kilometers (including the nearby islands) accounted for about 20.2% of the worlds total land area, second only to Asia, the worlds second largest continent. There are one billion people in Africa, ranking second in the world. Africa located near the equator, therefore, all year round sunshine intensity, widespread desert land, one-third of the area is desert, the Sahara desert are on which accounted for a quarter of the land in Africa ,and is the worlds largest desert. Most of Africa belong to the tropical climate, tropical rain forests, plateau continent, southeast high, northwestern low .There are many rivers and lakes in Africa, where the Nile total length of 6671 km, is the longest river in the world. The Congo River basin area and flow rate rank second only to Amazon, ranking second in the world. Llake Victoria, Africas largest lake, the second largest freshwater lake in the world.Africa is rich in natural resource type, variety and large reserves. Oil, gas, minerals and others are rich. African folk customs Africa is the hometown of the famous cabaret, Africans also has superior artistic skills, since ancient times, it is popular with African features a variety of musical elements, with strong ethnic characteristics, the most prominent feature is the strong sense of rhythm, follo