Geography
A steep slope with a flat plateau on top
What is an Escarpment?
Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti
What are the countries that make up the Horn of Africa
Conference that is known for "carving up" Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Trade and Location
Why is Islam the main religion in North Africa?
African king who helped spread Islam throughout Northern Africa.
Who was Mansa Musa?
The longest river in the world, flows 4000 miles from the center of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea and supplies water for more than 90% of Egyptians.
Why is the Nile River?
Apartheid was the system of segregation in this country
What is South Africa?
This showed evidence of a sophisticated African civilization that challenged the Europeans' assumptions of African inferiority.
What was the Great Zimbabwe ruins?
Exportation of Raw Materials
What is the economy in Africa based on?
person MOST known for fighting Apartheid.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
The imaginary line that separates Northern and Southern Africa.
What is the Equator?
Between 800,00 and 1 million people died in this country in 1994.
What is Rwanda?
Another name for the Dutch farmers in South Africa.
Who were the Boers?
produced a greater diversity of cultures and linked areas of the continent by cultures
What is the Bantu Migration known for?
Hired by King Leopold II of Belgium to explore the Congo River Basin also credited for finding Dr. Livingstone
Who was Henry Stanley?
Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya
What are two volcanoes in East Africa?
This country was formed as a settlement for former slaves from the U.S. and free black Americas.
What is Liberia?
Lost control of land, new diseases introduced, many killed, artificial boundaries made, unnaturally divided ethnic groups and families, natural resources stripped from lands
What are some of the negative consequences due to European Colonization?
movement advocating for the unity and solidarity of all African nations and people of African descent worldwide
What is Pan-Africanism?
Protected and saved over 1200 Tutsi and Hutu during the Rwandan Genocide.
Who is Paul Rusesabagina?
A forest with warm temperatures, plentiful rainfall, high humidity and thick vegetation
What is a rain forest?
Large island of Africa's Southeastern coast.
What is Madagascar?
Sanitation conditions improved (drinking water and waste management) hospitals, schools increased, life span and literacy rates increased
What are some positive consequences regarding European Colonization?
The Himba people use this when water is scare to cleanse their skin and hair and it is used as an insect repellent and sun block
What is Red Ochre?
Two ethnic groups that were involved in a conflict that left between 800,000 and 1 million people dead in Rwanda.
Who were the Tutsi and the Hutu?