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What is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force?
Imperialism
Emperor of the wealthy West African Mali Empire and thought to be the riches man ever
Mansa Musa
City in the western African country of Mali, historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a centre of Islamic culture
Timbuktu
A South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader who served as President of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
A great Zulu king and conqueror who brought more than a hundred chiefdoms together in a Zulu kingdom
Shaka
The life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by "survival of the fittest."
Social Darwinism
Someone or something from the Sahara desert, the largest hot desert in the world
Saharan
Geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara, which includes the dark-skinned people of Africa
Sub-Saharan
Advocacy of political independence for a particular country
Nationalism
A genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government
Rwandan Genocide
Settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with a parent country by trade and direct government control
Colonies
Tracing ancestral descent through the maternal line
Matrilineal
Wrote letters to the King of Portugal complaining their practice of trading slaves captured in his kingdom and controlling his lands
King Afonso
A system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991
Apartheid
A specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health
World Health Organization
The religious belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence
Animism
A major public health concern and cause of death in many parts of Africa
AIDS
This Kingdom marks the beginning of a series of empires in West Africa that traded with one another
Kingdom of Ghana
What are the two resources the West African Kingdoms used in order to expand control?
Gold and Iron
The two main religions in the continent of Africa are (hint: Abrahamic religions)
Christianity and Islam
The "passage" that African slaves were taken to the Americas by ship that moved across the Atlantic
Middle Passage
This poem was written to try and justify white imperialism and colonialism in Africa as a way to help "non-white races" develop
The White Man's Burden
What ethnic group did the British push out in order to take control of Africa?
The Boers (Dutch settlers)
What was the outcome of World War 2 in regards to African Independence that led to reform movements in Africa?
Germany lost all colonial power and the land was divided between Great Britian and France
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade traded human beings from Africa with _______ and _________ from the Americas
Sugar and Tobacco