AFRAS 170A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quinine, Cinchona, Curare
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All of china could fit in africa. 11,608,000: the nile river iteru=fertility and regeneration. 4000 miles long- longest in the world. Runs north, from inner africa, and empties in the mediterrean sea. White nile tributary (many waterfalls and rapids) lake nyanza in mountainous uganda area. White nile joins blue nile tri. (deep and blue)=lake tana, N. coast, algeria to morocco- larger: tip-cape town area-smaller. Sahara: in north, largest non-polar desert in world. Kalahari: in south (namibia) semi-arid: kung san home: sahel: semi-arid region better than sahara and savannah. Drought: savannah (grasslands)- africa most famous; most animals; largest area of the 5, tropical rain forest. Is not a jungle (a jungle is a thick, impenetrable vegetation area within a rainforest. Not dangerous to those who live near, or in it. Curare: from tropical vine- anesthetic in surgery. Rosy periwinkle plant- investigated for leukemia treatment.
