Africa

Question 1

Transportation across Sahara by horse draw carriages, traded far away, extensive amounts of gold and salt, eventually taken over by the Kingdom of Mali

Answer 1

Ghana

Question 2

Expand gold and salt trade routes

Answer 2

Mali

Question 3

How many empires did Africa have?

Answer 3

18

Question 4

Why were Europeans interested in Africa?

Answer 4

economic and religious reasons

Question 5

Why did Europeans feel that they needed to save Africa from the Africans?

Answer 5

economic motivation, political ambition

Question 6

Trade routes that benefitted/ affected Europe, Africa and North America

Answer 6

triangle trade

Question 7

What did Africa trade to North America?

Answer 7

slaves

Question 8

What did Europe trade to Africa?

Answer 8

goods and weapons

Question 9

what did North America trade to Europe?

Answer 9

cotton and sugar

Question 10

What are the 4 major climate zones in Africa?

Answer 10

tropical wet, tropical wet and dry, desert, moderate mediterranean

Question 11

Turning semi desert to desert

Answer 11

desertification

Question 12

Where did desertification happen?

Answer 12

Regions of the Sahel

Question 13

What are the major rivers?

Answer 13

Nile, Niger, Zaire

Question 14

What are Africa’s natural resources?

Answer 14

gold, diamonds, platinum, oil, copper

Question 15

People clearing land for farming and burning wood for fuel

Answer 15

deforestation

Question 16

What is the social organization for Africa?

Answer 16

live in extended families

Question 17

One god

Answer 17

monotheistic

Question 18

Why did the Dutch, French, and German farmers move to South Africa?

Answer 18

religious/economic reasons

Question 19

Dutch farmers who moved inland to grow crops and raise cattle

Answer 19

Boer

Question 20

White African tribe, owned slaves, a language that is a mix of dutch and african

Answer 20

Afrikaner

Question 21

When did Britain seize the cape colony?

Answer 21

1795

Question 22

What were some rules made when Britain took over?

Answer 22

ban slavery, discriminated against illiterate Boers

Question 23

14,000 Afrikaners move 1,000 miles further inland to escape British domination

Answer 23

Great Trek

Question 24

What were the effects of The Great Trek?

Answer 24

Afrikaners died, battles with natives, hate of British and Blacks, goal of manifest destiny in S. Africa

Question 25

Who fought in the Boer War?

Answer 25

Afrikaners and British

Question 26

Who won the Boer War?

Answer 26

British

Question 27

Why did the Boer War start?

Answer 27

British wanted gold and diamonds on Afrikaner land

Question 28

When did South Africa grant independence?

Answer 28

1910

Question 29

Who ruled South Africa after the British?

Answer 29

Afrikaner

Question 30

Black and whites would advance and live separately but have equal opportunity

Answer 30

Apartheid

Question 31

When was Apartheid established?

Answer 31

1948

Question 32

What were the classifications of people living in South Africa?

Answer 32

blacks, colored, whites

Question 33

What were some restrictions colored and blacks had?

Answer 33

can't vote, can't hold meetings, meetings, labor unions, or own businesses and property, schools and towns were publicly segregated

Question 34

Black reservations away from the white cities

Answer 34

Homelands

Question 35

Non-whites must carry _____ if they want to travel/work anywhere

Answer 35

passbooks/passlaws

Question 36

What were blacks forbidden to do?

Answer 36

ride buses, play on white beaches, inferior education, low literacy means no power

Question 37

What did the Afrikaner government support?

Answer 37

capitalism

Question 38

What did the white government support?

Answer 38

democracy

Question 39

Believed in equal civil rights for all, abolition of passbooks, common system of education, cessation of forced deportation from South Africa to the so called homelands

Answer 39

Desmond Tutu

Question 40

Blacks burn passes in front of the police station; 69 people were killed and 180 wounded

Answer 40

Sharpeville Massacre

Question 41

1st armed resistance that banned ANC and PNC, led by Nelson Mandela

Answer 41

Spear of the Nation

Question 42

Leader of Black Consciousness; was tortured then killed while in police custody

Answer 42

Steve Biko

Question 43

A exclusively black group to fight Apartheid peacefully

Answer 43

Black Consciousness

Question 44

What happened to South Africa after Apartheid was getting worse?

Answer 44

banned from the UN, olympics, US banned investments

Question 45

How long after was Nelson Mandela released from jail?

Answer 45

27 years

Question 46

President of South Africa; worked with Mandela for a new constitution for desegregated South Africa

Answer 46

F.W. deKlerk

Question 47

Who was president after deKlerk?

Answer 47

Mandela

Question 48

What was the problem with the government of Somalia?

Answer 48

Wasn't strong enough, There were too many conflicts between clans

Question 49

Why do Somalis still don't get along even though they profess strong allegiance to Islam?

Answer 49

Hold stronger loyalty to self, family and clan

Question 50

What is the literacy rate for Somalia?

Answer 50

25%

Question 51

When did Somalia have independence?

Answer 51

1960

Question 52

Who ruled Rwanda?

Answer 52

Germany and Belgium

Question 53

Who did the Belgians left in charge of Rwanda?

Answer 53

Tutsi

Question 54

Who ruled the government after Belgium was out of the picture?

Answer 54

Hutus

Question 55

What were the roots of genocide in Rwanda?

Answer 55

president of Rwanda was killed, Hutus were angry and killed Tutsis

Question 56

Why did the UN and US sit out of Rwanda's situation?

Answer 56

Had no benefits, no resources, no strategic value, Somalia

Question 57

To spread out or scatter

Answer 57

Diaspora

Question 58

Name of militia group in Sudan

Answer 58

Janjaweed

Question 59

Region south of the desert

Answer 59

Sahel

Question 60

Where is the kalahari and namid located

Answer 60

South

Question 61

Region in Sudan where genocide is taken place

Answer 61

Darfur

Question 62

Belief that all african people have a common belief and unity

Answer 62

Pan-Africanism

Question 63

Name of majority black political party

Answer 63

ANC

Question 64

Somalian warlord

Answer 64

Aidid

Question 65

What two sides fought in the Sudan civil war?

Answer 65

Darfur and Arabs

Question 66

Why is the Sudan war going on?

Answer 66

Religious conflicts since the Arabs took over the government and forcing religious views to the other blacks in the country

Question 67

Why was the janjaweed formed?

Answer 67

Other people were going against the Sudanese government

Question 68

Arab militiamen

Answer 68

Janjaweed