Trade
The first Europeans to sail to West Africa and establish trade links.
The Portuguese.
The first pack animal to be used for transport.
Donkeys.
The earliest form of writing in Egypt.
Hieroglyphics.
Three sources of energy used by the ancient communities.
Wood, Water, Wind, and/or Solar.
Urbanization is...
The process by which people are attracted to settlements of large human population.
Three types of trade, and two methods.
local, regional, and international ; barter and currency
Two reasons why road transport is so common.
It’s easy, inexpensive, fast and flexible.
Three forms of telecommunication.
Telephone, cell phone, television, radio, telegraph, the internet, fax, telex, and pagers.
Two disadvantages of oil.
Expensive to transport, expensive to prospect, and bad for the environment.
Two urban problems facing Nairobi.
Unemployment, poor housing, inadequate social services, traffic, poor drainage, pollution, homelessness, water shortage, and HIV/AIDs
Two political impacts of the slave trade on African states.
Political powers fuse with commercial powers, and fighting/war is ‘revolutionized’
The result of the construction of the Suez Canal.
Ships could go from Europe (the Mediterranean) to the Far East (the Red Sea) without going all the way around Africa.
The inventor of the television.
Loggie Baird.
Groups associated with the introduction of iron smelting in Africa.
Phoenicians and Assyrians; Buhuya
The main factor that led to the decline of Kilwa.
The disruption of the gold trade due to civil wars among the communities which were producing the gold.
Four social impacts of the trans-atlantic trade on African communities.
immense suffering from enslavement; seperation of families; death from resisting slavery; higher level of insecurity (raids); roles of leaders change; roles of women change; taste acquired for western goods; wealthy merchant class grows; mixed people are born
Four characteristics of macadamized roads.
Three layers of small broken stones, surface packed tightly, gravel on top, cheap, durable, good drainage, straight, and a smooth surface.
Four negative impacts of telecommunication systems.
promotion of poor ideals, immorality, inaccesibility, technology addiction, noise pollution, and radioactive ray exposure.
Four factors influencing the industrialization of the U.S.
Raw materials, readily available labor, good transport and communication, scientific innovation, foreign investments, ready markets, enterprising citizens, political stability, energy sources, capitalism, government support, and WW1&2.
Four functions of Johannesburg.
Highly developed transport and communication network, industrial and manufacturing center, financial center, and educational center.
Five reasons why the trans-saharan trade declined.
Exhaustion of resources, crime/insecurity, invasion of ports, ottoman turk invasion, invasion of western sudan, trans-atlantic trade, abolitionism, colonization, middlemen lost, and/or growth of water transport.
Five fields directly benefitted by the development of air transport.
agriculture, fire fighting, cartography, wildlife conservation, manufacturing, tourism, weather forecasting / meteorology, expionage, space exploration, and entertainment.
Five reasons why the development of radio was important.
easily accessible to all, quick communication, improved communication in transport industries, educational programs shared, entertainment, advertising, space exploration improved.
Five significant inventions in the field of medicine.
dissection, vaccines, anaesthesia, chloroform, pasteurization, antiseptic sprays, x-rays, blood-grouping, blood banks, penicillin, heart transplant, heart valve replacement, soft contact lenses, test tube babies, kidney dialysis machines.
Five factors for the growth of London BEFORE WW1.
Celtic settlement, Roman colony, busy port, english craft guilds, immigration, commercial centre, industrial centre, political centre (royal family), social/entertainment centre.