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 * East Africa **

What is life living along the Indian Ocean? Living where they live is all because of the different Ethnic Groups. Because of the long cost line touching the Indian ocean Africa is connected with other countries. It also brought the culture of Arab because people traveled there by water. Africa can keep in touch with people such as Indians. Asians and can also connect to countries as far away as China and Malaysia. Also living on the ocean brings a good way of catching food. Fishing. It can provide water to hidrate plants and for drinking, and it is good transportation.

this picture shows how the east part of Africa touches the Indian ocean. I chose it because in my paragraph i talk about life on the cost. [|Http://media.maps.com]

 **What are the cultures of East Africa? ** In east Africa, the cultures, religion and languages are mixed, but Islam and Christianity are some of the major religions. The Arab traders had introduced the Islamic religion to east Africa. Then after some time the Romans added to the east African culture by adding Christianity.

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 * This is a picture of a Swahili exercise book from a school. In many eastern countries children are taught Swahili throughout the elementary grades, then later they are taught English. I choses this picture because Swahili is one of the major cultures in East Africa, apart from Christinanity and Islam.**

What is the Swahili Culture? The Swahili is a very unique culture. The Swahili are Africans who have a mixture of African and Arab culture. They speak a language called Swahili, it is a Bantu language. The Swahili is an ethnic group that lives along the east coast of Africa from Somalia to Mozambique. Swahili is the first language of about 49 million people all around the world. The Swahili is just one of the very interesting ethnic groups all around Africa.

This is a picture of an African from the Swahili ethnic group. I chose this picture because my paragraph is about the Swhili ethnic group.[|**swahili.rutgers.edu/ info.html**]
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Vocabulary __** plantation- a large farm where plants are grown. Gonder- a city in northern Ethiopia (in East Africa.)
 * Swahili- Africans who have mixed African and Arab ancestry

All resources are Eastern Hemiphere books and internet **