African Geography
Europeans come to Africa
Congo colonization
European Imperialism
General Africa
100
What is the longest river in the world?
What is the Nile River
100
Where did the earliest Europeans settle Africa?
What is on the coast
100
What country colonized the Congo in the 1880's
What is Belgium
100
What poem did Rudyard Kipling write explaining how it was Europe's job to civilize the rest of the world?
What is WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
100
During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, what was the branch of the triangle called that shipped slave to the colonies.
What is the Middle Passage
200
Identify the largest desert in the world
What is the Sahara
200
What was the first item that Europeans sold from Africa?
What are slaves
200
Identify the main resource that the Congo was colonized for
What is rubber
200
Identify 1 cause for European imperialism in Africa
What is National pride, natural resources, economic gain, missionalry impulse
200
90 % of this precious metal, used in cell phones today, is found in the Congo
What is colton
300
What is Africa's grassland called?
What is the savanna
300
What decade did Europeans begin their SCRAMBLE for AFRICA
What is 1880's
300
Identify the King who was the only person ever to be the sole owner of a colony
What is King Leopold II
300
What decade did most of the African coutries gain their independence
What is 1960's
300
What body system does AIDS affect the most?
What is the immune system
400
Africa is often called the Tropical continent and was also called the _________ continent when little was known about it.
What is Dark Continent
400
Identify the conference where the European countries divided Africa into colonies
What is Berlin Conference
400
Why did King Leopold's officers demand that his army bring back severed hands
What is to show that they had shot them..proof of bullet use
400
What was considered to be the strongest country in the world in the 1880's
What is Great Britain
400
Identify the canal that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea
What is Suez Canal
500
Identify the dam that was built across the Nile River and created Lake Nasser
What is Aswan High Dam
500
Identify the 2 countries in Africa that were never colonized
What is Ethiopia and Liberia
500
Why do some people not consider the Congo colonization to be a genecide
What is because a genecide is trying to exterminate and entire race and that was not what they were doing because it was their work force
500
What was occuring in Europe that made them desire more resources
What is the Industrial Revolution
500
Why is it an advantage to be a carrier of sickle cell when you live in Africa
What is becasue it makes you immune to malaria
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