Africa Unit Exam Flashcards
What impact did slavery have on the Americas?
Cultural Diffusion
Which example of skill advancement allowed the ancient people of Egypt, Kush, and Axum to develop a civilization?
The development of agriculture
What impact did slavery have on Africa?
Families were torn apart, millions died, and millions never saw their homes again
How did the ancient African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai become wealthy?
The location of the three African kingdoms allowed to have control over the salt and gold trade routes to Europe
How did Europeans and colonists justify enslaving millions of Africans?
Africans needed manufactured goods from Europe, slavery made the plantations in the Americas profitable, Africans would become civilized, and they could convert Africans to Christianity.
The Kingdom of Axum, located in modern day Ethiopia, was founded by a group of Arabs who left the Arabian Peninsula and settled in Africa close to the Red Sea. Classify the population of Axum
The population is foreign
Where did the earliest humans begin their migrations?
Africa
The people of the ancient African Kingdom of Axum converted to Christianity after it was introduced to them by shipwrecked Christian Syrians. This is an example of
Cultural diffusion
How did the “Homelands” and “Shanty-Towns” of South Africa develop?
The Afrikaans’ National Party passed the Group Areas Acts which forced black Africans to move to rural townships or on the outskirts of major cities
Why were the people of Axum able to prosper from trading?
It was located on the Red Sea
Why did Timbuktu attract Muslim leaders such as judges, doctors, religious leaders, and scholars?(
Mansa Musa converted to Islam and built Islamic mosques and universities after completing his hajj to Mecca
Why did black Africans form the African National Congress (ANC)?
To increase the rights of black Africans
Why did the Bantu leave their homelands near the Niger River in Western Africa along the Sahel?
Desertification and population growth forced the Bantu to migrate in search of farmland
What was apartheid?
The legal separation of whites from other races in South Africa between 1948-1994 in which non-whites experienced political and economic discrimination
How did the Bantu influence the civilizations and culture groups of Central and Southern Africa?
They taught them farming and ironworking
