Geography/ Climate
This climate-related issue has worsened due to overgrazing and drought.
Desertification
This system helped teach children societal values.
Age-Grade system
What European country explored the African coast first?
Portugal
What element includes families, social classes, and communities?
Social Organization
This South African leader was imprisoned for nearly 30 years.
What is a cataract?
He was a Mali emperor who spread Islam and known for wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca
Mansa Musa
What region of Africa was most disrupted by the slave trade?
West Africa
What element is used to communicate and pass down traditions?
Language
System of inequality and injustice in South Africa?
Apartheid
How have oceans played an important role in Africa’s development?
By providing links between Africa and the rest of the world?
This person told stories about the past in traditional African villages.
Griot
This term refers to the global spread of African people due to slavery.
African Diaspora
What element includes traditional, market, and command systems?
Economic Systems
What is a griot?
African storyteller
This physical feature separates Africa’s plateaus from its coastal plains.
Escarpment
This term describes the belief in spirits in both living and non-living things.
Animism
European colonization replaced barter economies with this.
Money / Cash Economy
What element includes democracy, dictatorship, and republics?
Government Systems
What group had high status from education?
Elite
Africa’s natural resources are described this way.
Unevenly distributed
Villagers reached decisions by discussing all sides of an issue, a process called this.
Consensus
Most African nations became independent during this time period.
1945-1975
What element helps answer life’s big questions and supports moral values?
Religion
Nations pressured South Africa to end apartheid using this strategy.
Boycotts and economic sanctions