Geography
The main environmental challenge in the Sahel.
What is desertification?
The first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
most widely spoken languages due to European colonization
What is English and French?
many rural areas have this economy in SSA
What is traditional economy?
Most SSA countries level of development.
What is Level 3 ?
Type of farming that provides for a family and the village.
What is subsistence farming.
2 main religions in the region
What is Christianity and Islam?
many SSA countries have natural resources but do not have this to develop industries
What is capital (money)?
In SSA, people feel a stronger connection to this than the country they live in.
semi-arid transition zone in Africa separating the Sahara Desert to the north from the tropical savannas to the south
What is the Sahel?
powerful Western kingdom that built wealth by trading salt and gold
What is the Ghana Kingdom?
Urban areas have high rise building and apartments but lack this.
What is transportation routes/network?
The largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
African culture was destroyed, loss of land, forced to work for low wages, natural resources taken from country, land and people exploited by Europeans
What is imperialism?
Powerful kingdom who mummified their dead, built pyramids, and wrote in heiroglyphics.
What is the Kingdom of Kush?
Main economies (2) in SSA.
What is mining and Eco-Tourism?
People living in dry, rural areas may not have access to this much needed resource.
What is water?
the highest mountain found in East Africa.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro
Nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped, forced onto European and American ships, and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved.
What is the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade?
in rural areas, stories and poems passed down to the next generation
What is oral tradition?
Civil war and genocide in South Sudan caused 40,000 boys to flee the country.
What is the "Lost Boys" of Sudan?
Powerful kingdom that conquered the Kush and spread Christianity.
What is the Aksum Kingdom?