Africa Unit

Question 0

Desertification in North Africa

Answer 0

The Sahara is expanding causing parts of the Sahel to become desert

Question 1

Physical geography of North Africa

Answer 1

Sahara Desert, Sahel, ergs, regs

Question 2

What are ergs?

Answer 2

Sand dunes

Question 3

What are regs?

Answer 3

Rocky, dry earth

Question 4

Where did most civilizations settle in North Africa?

Answer 4

Mediterranean shore, oases, and Nile River

Question 5

What are the two ancient civilizations of North Africa?

Answer 5

Egyptians and Carthage

Question 6

Cultural diffusion in North Africa

Answer 6

Muslim invaders, Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, Arabic influence

Question 7

Arab spring

Answer 7

Started in Tunisia and spread throughout North Africa and eventually Southwest Asia

Question 8

What are the positives of the Aswan High Dam?

Answer 8

Contains flood waters, helps with irrigation

Question 9

What are the negatives of the Aswan High Dam?

Answer 9

No silt, too much salt, evaporation, and mosquitoes

Question 10

Physical geography of West Africa

Answer 10

Sahara Desert, Niger River, Atlantic coastline, diverse vegetation and climate

Question 11

What are the traditional cultures of West Africa?

Answer 11

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai; traded gold and salt

Question 12

What is a stateless society?

Answer 12

A group of people with no central government, but are governed by family linages

Question 13

What is historical about West Africa?

Answer 13

Major center for the African slave trade, Gorée Island served as a major export point

Question 14

Physical geography of Central Africa

Answer 14

Congo River, Central African Rainforest

Question 15

What is the main traditional culture of Central Africa?

Answer 15

Bantu

Question 16

What is significant about the Bantu Migrations?

Answer 16

Spread their language, linked diverse areas together through common traits and language

Question 17

What is colonialism?

Answer 17

The control of a group of people, dependent nation or territory by an exterior state

Question 18

What happened in the Berlin Conference?

Answer 18

Divided Africa among 15 colonial powers

Question 19

Physical geography of East Africa

Answer 19

Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kenya, Rift Valley

Question 20

How long is the Great Rift Valley?

Answer 20

6,000 miles

Question 21

What two lakes were created by the Great Rift Valley?

Answer 21

Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa

Question 22

What is the significant about the Olduvai Gorge?

Answer 22

Considered the birthplace of humanity, contains a continuous record of human history

Question 23

What is the traditional culture in East Africa?

Answer 23

Aksum

Question 24

Economics for East Africa

Answer 24

Agriculture and tourism drive the economics

Question 25

When did South Sudan become an independent country?

Answer 25

2011

Question 26

Physical geography of Southern Africa

Answer 26

Namib and Kalahari Deserts, valuable natural resources

Question 27

What are the ancient empires of Southern Africa?

Answer 27

Great Zimbabwe and Mutapa Empire

Question 28

What are the ethnic influences in Southern Africa?

Answer 28

Dutch, Great Britain, Asians

Question 29

What is apartheid?

Answer 29

Complete separation of races, instituted in South Africa in 1948 and abolished in 1994

Question 30

What are the current issues of Southern Africa?

Answer 30

Malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDs

Question 31

What is malaria?

Answer 31

Infectious blood disease passed by mosquitoes

Question 32

What is cholera?

Answer 32

Intestinal infection that is transmitted by contaminated water supplies

Question 33

What is tuberculosis?

Answer 33

Bacteria that attacks the lungs

Question 34

What is HIV?

Answer 34

Virus contracted through unprotected sex and sharing of needles

Question 35

What is AIDs?

Answer 35

HIV that escalated too far, destroys the immune system

Question 36

What can solve the current issues in Southern Africa?

Answer 36

Education and medical care

Question 37

What are the 8 Components of Genocide?

Answer 37

Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization, Polarization, Preparation, Extermination, and Denial

Question 38

What is classification?

Answer 38

Us and them

Question 39

What is Symbolization?

Answer 39

Give names and symbols to the different groups

Question 40

What is Dehumanization?

Answer 40

Group members are equated with animals, vermin, insects, or diseases

Question 41

What is Organization?

Answer 41

Either by the state or by terrorist groups

Question 42

What is Polarization?

Answer 42

Extremists drive the groups apart, laws may forbid inter-marriage or social interaction, propaganda

Question 43

What is Preparation?

Answer 43

Victims are identified and separated out, death lists are created

Question 44

What is Extermination?

Answer 44

Murder begins and becomes mass murder

Question 45

What is Denial?

Answer 45

Attempt to cover up evidence, blame what happened in the victims