Physical
Cultural
Vocabulary
History
Anything Goes
100
This country is located at the southern tip of Africa
What is South Africa?
100
This is a belief that one's own culture is better than others
What is ethnocentrism?
100
This is the use of power for personal gain
What is corruption?
100
This is a policy by which one country tries to rule other areas
What is colonialism?
100
South Africa saw this political system of racial inequality and denial of political rights end in the early 1990s
What is apartheid?
200
This band of dry land borders the Sahara to the south and includes some of the poorest nations in Africa
What is the Sahel?
200
This is a musician/storyteller in West Africa
What is a griot?
200
This is a life-threatening disease spread by mosquitoes
What is malaria?
200
This is a movement that used force to end British rule in Kenya
What is Mau Mau?
200
This is the illegal killing of wild animals
What is poaching?
300
This river is the longest river in the world, and run through Sudan
What is the Nile River?
300
This is the term for a Bantu language that is influenced by Arabic
What is Swahili?
300
This is the process of turning arable land into desert, can be caused by cutting trees, drought, or overgrazing
What is desertification?
300
This is the part of triangular trade that carried slaves to America
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This is a disadvantage of diamond mining
What are poor working conditions and pollution?
400
This area is part of the savanna in Kenya and Tanzania
What is the Serengeti Plain?
400
This is a policy to keep blacks and white South Africans apart
What is apartheid?
400
Ancient Ghana was involved in this trade with Arab traders
What is the salt trade?
400
This organization was banned in South Africa for trying to obtain civil rights for blacks.
What is the African National Congress?
400
Game preserves encourage this as a growing business which brings millions of dollars into African economies
What is ecotourism?
500
This area of Africa is a long, flat area between areas of higher ground in Eastern Africa
What is the Great Rift Valley?
500
This is a political movement to unite black Africans around the world
What is Pan-Africanism?
500
These are people from the Netherlands who settled in Capetown, South Africa
Who are the Boers?
500
This was the person who freed Nelson Mandela from prison in South Africa
Who is F.W. De Klerk?
500
Drawing borders without regard to ethnicity, sometime putting warring tribes in the same country
What is the effect of colonialism in Africa?
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