geography of north africa

• Ports on North Arica's Meditarranean and Atlantic coasts link with Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Egypt.
• Overland camel caravan routes ran from south to north, carrying valuable salt and gold from Mali and Western Africa to northern ports.
• Fez and Morocco have mosques and colleges - examples of elegance and design.
• Kairouan (in Tunisia) - first administrative capita lof the region as Islam expanded westward along the coasts and mountains of Algeria and eventually reached Morroco and Andalusia in Spain.
• Libya has 2 main regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea:

  -Western Libya (Tripolitania)

  -Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica in the Libyan Plateau)
• Cities of North Africa are located on or near the coasts connecting it to the Mediterranean Sea/Atlantic Ocean. Due to vast Sahara, stretches all the way across from Atlantic Ocean to Nile Valley in the east.