from where did the continent get its name?
It was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of then-known northern Africa.
Africa
"Afri" was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of then-known northern Africa to the west of the Nile river, and in its widest sense referred to all lands south of the Mediterranean (Ancient Libya)
what is hippopotamus? It is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal and ungulate native to sub-Saharan Africa. from where did it get its name? It is derived from the ancient Greek. how is it classified? It is the type genus of the family Hippopotamidae. does it attack humans? Yes, small boats can easily be capsized. mention a few depictions of it in various cultures? A red hippo represented the Ancient Egyptian god Set symbolises virility. how is the demography of the aforementioned continent where the hippos are native? The total number of people in Africa increased from 229 million in 1950 to 630 million in 1990. name a few territories from the continent? UNANSWERABLE
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Africa [SEP] Etymology
"Afri" was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of then-known northern Africa to the west of the Nile river, and in its widest sense referred to all lands south of the Mediterranean (Ancient Libya). This name seems to have originally referred to a native Libyan tribe, an ancestor of modern Berbers; see Terence for discussion. The name had usually been connected with the Phoenician word "" meaning "dust", but a 1981 hypothesis has asserted that it stems from the Berber word "ifri" (plural "ifran") meaning "cave", in reference to cave dwellers. The same word may be found in the name of the Banu Ifran from Algeria and Tripolitania, a Berber tribe originally from Yafran (also known as "Ifrane") in northwestern Libya.