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POLITICS AND ECONOMY
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Final Jeopardy
100
This river, best known for flowing through Egypt
What is the Nile
100
What P.O.S.T. stands for
what is people, objects, symbols, text
100
One of the languages from southern Africa which uses click sounds in its consonants
What is Zulu / Xhosa / Khoisan
100
The system the white South African government used to control the majority black population.
What is Apartheid
100
Something bad about the place you live which makes you want to move somewhere else such as war, lack of jobs, or a natural disaster.
What is a push factor
200
The transition area between the Sahara desert and the grasslands of central Africa
What is the Sahel
200
An organization dedicated to promoting democracy and economic cooperation between African countries.
What is the African Union
200
A Bantu language with heavy influences from Arabic, along with Indian and Persian. Shares a name with an area of coastline
What is Swahili
200
The only African country never successfully colonized by an outside power
What is Ethiopia
200
One of these is not like the other (European mountain ranges): the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Sierras, the Caucasus, the Urals
What is the Sierras
300
The largest hot desert in the world
What is the Sahara
300
Africa's main role in the world economy
What is exporting natural resources
300
The religion which is found in most of the southern half of the continent, with Islam being mostly in the north.
What is Christianity
300
This is the targeted destruction of a group because of their ethnicity, nationality, or religion.
What is genocide?
300
A collection of related languages that all share a common origin
What is a language family
400
The body of water which separates Africa from Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea
400
The first black president of South Africa, and winner of a Nobel Peace Prize
Who is Nelson Mandella
400
An island nation which speaks Malagasy, which is an Austronesian language
Madagascar
400
The region of Africa colonized by Belgium and used for rubber production through brutal means.
What is the Congo
400
This is the only DTM stage where the overall population is decreasing.
What is stage five
500
A region in east Africa created by two tectonic plates separating, and is where we think humans first came from.
What is the Great Rift Valley
500
The ability a country has to rule itself and not be controlled by someone else.
What is sovereignty
500
The split in spoken languages (French and English) in this country has created political division and animosity between the two sides
What is Cameroon
500
This caused many of ethnic conflicts in newly independent African countries
What are borders drawn by colonial powers
500
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, often to the exclusion of other nations.
What is nationalism
500
The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries especially former colonies.
What is neocolonialism