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