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The area between Sahara Desert and the Savanna grasslands
What is the Sahel?
Timbuktu
What is the famous trade city of the Mali Empire became a major center for learning and the storage/trading of vast amounts of books and written knowledge?
A group of people who share a common cultural heritage, including traits like language, religion, and traditions.
What is an ethnic group
Because of farming practices such as slash and burn, required migration to find new unspoiled forest
What is the reason for Bantu Migration?
Desertification
What is the term for the process by which fertile land degrades and turns into desert, often due to climate change or human activity?
Rivers and Location two rivers are correctly identified as the longest in Africa and the largest by volume
What are the Nile and the Congo River?
Golden Stool
What is the sacred symbol of the Ashanti people?
The long-term process of land becoming dry and desert-like, often due to overgrazing, deforestation, and drought
What is desertification
Arab and Bantu influences.
Who are the Swahili (ethnic group, primarily found along the East African coast)
Some parts of the continent have plenty of water, while others have very little
What is unequal distribution of water in Africa?
Savanna
What is the largest area of Africa and is characterized by rolling grasslands and scattered trees?
Islam and Christianity
Land being cleared for agriculture and logging
What is a major human activity causing significant deforestation in Africa?
Because it was essential for preserving food and maintaining human health.
What was the primary reason salt was so valuable to the people of West Africa?
Building an irrigation system to bring water from a river to a dry farm field is an example of which type of Human-Environment Interaction (HEI)?
What is modifying?
What is the Sahel?
The long-term demographic, economic, and political impact on West Africa.
What is the main difference between the Trans-Saharan Trade and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Imperialism
What is the policy of a stronger nation taking political, economic, and military control over a weaker region or territory is called:
It led to the loss of millions of young, able-bodied workers.
What is the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa?
Adapt, Modify, and Depend
What are the three categories used by geographers to define Human-Environment Interaction (HEI)?
Severe long-term depopulation, constant warfare, and the destabilization of their own kingdoms.
What is the political paradox of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the rulers who participated for short term gain?
The creation of modern national borders that often ignored existing ethnic/cultural lines, leading to post-independence conflicts.
What is the Berlin Conference The Berlin Conference of 1884?
Continued economic dependency on European and foreign markets for raw materials and imports.
What is a major long-term economic consequence of European Imperialism on Africa even after they gained independence?
Because they controlled trade routes for gold and salt across the Sahara.
What is the rise of powerful West African kingdoms like Ghana and Mali?
The mixing of different cultures during the Slave Trade and later due to colonialism directly influenced the creation of new or changed languages in Africa, such as Swahili and Afrikaans. This is an example of which of the 5 themes of geography?
What is movement?