Physical Geography
Name of the nation that has had a hand in the Sudan conflict and is currently buying up mining land in the DRC? (tik tok creator)
China
Name of the group removed from the Kalahari after diamonds were discovered?
San
Southern Africa has the world's highest rate of this disease which leads to an extremely weak immune system.
HIV/AIDS
Resources that made Mansa Musa rich.
salt and gold
Island off the south east coast of Africa known for lemurs?
Madagascar
Name for South Africa's policy of segregation?
Apartheid
Moved to homelands, needed permission to be in the cities, no right to vote, civil protest led by Nelson Mandela....what was this historic event?
Apartheid
Name the illness that is widespread through the Congo Basin of Africa as well as other tropical areas in Africa. (HINT: the disease is spread through mosquitoes)
Malaria
*yellow fever will be accepted too
Corruption of "this resource" keeps Nigeria poor. This is the same resource that led to a 2nd civil war and a genocide in Sudan.
oil
Deforestation, mining, disease, lack of infrastructure, corruption, and illegal activities plague this region in central Africa?
the Congo
(DRC acceptable)
Name the European country that colonized the Sudan?
Great Britain
The spread of desert-like conditions south of the Sahara called desertification is caused by these 2 factors.
drought & overgrazing
Resource sold in Sierra Leone to fund the purchases of guns in the last 50 years?
(blood/conflict) diamonds
Region south of the Sahara where farmers and herders fight for access to limited resources?
Sahel
________ was the area in which King Leopold of Belgium was interested in colonizing for access to rubber for making tired back in Europe.
The Congo
(DRC accepted b/c its name today)
Name the group of nomadic pygmies that live in the Congo Rainforest.
Bambuti or Mbuti
What American history event is very similar to the San people of the Kalahari?
Indian Removal Act
Which resource resulted in the San people being removed from their historic hunting and gathering land?
diamonds
Area along the central coast of Africa where human beings were traded for guns and rum?
Slave Coast
What did Mansa Musa do to put Africa on the world-famous Catalina map.
took a religious journed to Mecca
(Hajj)
Name of the tall semi-nomadic herders, usually wearing red, who live in the Great Rift Valley.
Maasai
The clash of these two different ethnic groups in Rwanda led to a genocide that killed 800,000 people in 100 days. 2 groups?
Hutus and Tutsis
Resources in the DRC that are mostly foreign-owned and are the source of constant war. Name the 2 used in electronics
Cobalt and Coltan