Geography
Culture/Religion
Economics
Government
History
100
The dominant land form of North Africa.
What is desert?
100
Major ethnic group whose members are predominantly Muslim.
Who are the Arabs?
100
A type of government in which the citizens have power and personal freedoms.
What is democracy?
100
An economy with no government in which individuals choose what to produce, and supply and demand determine what goods are available.
What is free market economy?
100
The practice of colonizing other countries for your own country’s gain.
What is imperialism?
200
A region of Africa that is becoming drier due to desertification.
What is the Sahel?
200
They practice traditional religion and believe one’s ancestors play an important part in one’s everyday life.
Who are the Ashanti?
200
A government in which one person holds all the power.
What is autocracy?
200
A type of economy in which the government determines what goods are produced, how much is produced, and how much goods cost.
What is a command economy?
200
This meeting resulted in the division of Africa between various European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
300
Tropical grasslands home to lions, giraffes, elephants, and other large fauna.
What is the savanna?
300
Sixty million Africans trace their heritage back to this ethnic group, thanks to a massive ancient migration from Northern to Southern Africa.
Who are the Bantu?
300
A government system in which the legislature elects the head of government.
What is parliamentary democracy?
300
A trade restriction that completely stops trade of a given good or trade with a specific country.
What is an embargo?
300
The systematic, government-sanctioned discrimination and segregation of black South Africans.
What is apartheid?
400
The longest and second deepest lake in the world.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
400
They live predominantly in Eastern Africa, from Ethiopia down into Mozambique. Many members of this ethnic group practice Islam as well.
Who are the Swahili?
400
These include the right to vote, freedom of speech and religion, freedom of press.
What are personal freedoms?
400
This African country relies heavily on oil and petroleum to support their economy, although the majority of their population lives in poverty.
What is Nigeria?
400
South Africa’s first black president, who spent 27 years in prison on Robben Island.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
The dominant landform of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the Congo River basin.
What is the tropical rainforest?
500
This minority religion spread in different parts of Africa because of European and American missionaries.
What is Christianity?
500
This African country is categorized as a republic, even though its leader is a dictator.
What is the Sudan?
500
This country’s has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, which correlates with a higher standard of living.
What is Kenya?
500
The movement to unite Africans around the world and help end colonialism in Africa.
What is Pan-Africanism?
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