Africa Study Guide and Questions
You will find these answers in Unit 2 (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6 of the Blue Book- Global Mosaic.
You may work together or independently on this.
Vocabulary:
- Desertification
- African Sleeping Sickness
- AIDS
- Trans-Saharan Trade
- Desertification
- Age grade system
- “Dark Continent”
- Diaspora
- Imperialism
- Maxim Gun
- Congress of Berlin
- Boers
- Afrikaners
- Apartheid
- Non-violent Resistant Resistance
- Direct Rule
- Indirect Rule
- Duel Mandate
- Flexible Rule
- Pan - Africanism
- Boycott
- Multi National Corporation
- Griot
People:
- Mansa Musa
- Emperor Menelik II
- Nelson Mandela
Terms and Concepts:
- Great Rift Valley
- Significance of Lake Victoria
- Major river systems in Africa (name, location & significance)
- Significance of Aswan Dam
- Problem the climate presents for archeologists and historians
- Significance of ancient city Timbuktu
- Natural Resources available in Africa (where, what, who profits from them)
- Population- density, growth rate & cultural factors that contribute to it
- # of Ethnic groups
- # of languages
- Describe how climate effects live of people in Africa
- 2 Main colonial powers
- 3 most important values in African cultures
- 2 reasons why many African societies practice polygamy
- 3 major religions practiced throughout Africa and where
- Describe the basic tenets of animism
- Reason why Europeans made contact with Africa
- Differences between slavery in Africa and in the Americas
- 3 effects the slave trade had on Africans (in Africa)
- Significance of Sierra Leone
- Describe the struggle for Southern Africa between the Zulus, Dutch, and British
- Identify and describe Apartheid Laws
- Population Registration Act
- Group Areas Act
- Pass Laws
- Bantu Homelands Act
- Reason British system of governing colonies worked well
- Assimilation in French colonies
- Main problems with colonial rule
- 3 ways Europeans impacted the money economy system of Africa
- 3 reasons Africans wanted to control Africa
- Improvements made due to colonial rule
- Main problem in the establishment of nationalism
- Developments of educational system lead to independence
- 4 Independent African nations in 1950
- 4 Effects of colonial rule
- Reasons for civil war
- Reason most governmental programs fail
- Background causes of genocide in Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Sierra Leone
- Reason some Africans welcome military rule
- 2 Reasons socialism is appealing
- 3 Describe the problems with African economy
- Reasons people migrated from farms
- Reasons for population problems
- Pressures faced by the education al system
- 5 Reality of city life
- Leading cause of death
- African nation that has slowed spread of AIDS
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