African Geography
Empires of Africa
Scramble for Africa
Anti-Colonialism
Postcolonial Africa
100

Africa's largest desert

Sahara

100

This resource made the Empire of Mali wealthy

Gold

100

Called by Germany to divide control of Africa between European powers

Berlin Conference

100

Unity based on black African identity and values

Pan-Africanism

100

He was the longtime leader of Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe

200

Grassland climate found between rainforest and semiarid regions

Savannah

200

The Empire of Mali bought this resource from Berber merchants

Salt

200

Europeans bought slaves in West Africa to transport to their New World colonies

Atlantic Slave Trade

200

People of African descent living in Europe, America, or the West Indies

Diaspora

200

Went from the poorest country in Africa to one of the wealthiest and most stable following independence

Botswana

300

The majority religion in northern Africa

Islam

300

Citadel city that formed the center of a Southeast African empire

Great Zimbabwe

300

Leopold II used the Congo to acquire these resources

Rubber and ivory

300

French term for the development of "black consciousness," or positive African self-identity and way of thinking

Negritude

300

Equal treatment of all people, regardless of race, as the basis for government

non-racialism

400

There are this many countries in Africa

54

400

This slave trade crossed the Sahara desert to provide slaves for the Islamic world

Arab Slave Trade

400

Europeans controlled about this much of Africa by 1914

90%

400

This country's successful independence movement inspired African revolutionaries

India

400

The British colony that became modern Zimbabwe

Southern Rhodesia

500

Heart of Central Africa's rainforest region

Congo River Basin

500

The rulers of the Kingdom of Ethiopia claimed descent from this Jewish king

Solomon

500

The Scramble for Africa ended because of this war

World War I

500

After World War I, this was the basis of the international order... as long as you were white

Self-determination

500

War between Zimbawean revolutionaries and white-minority government of Ian Smith

Rhodesian Bush War

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