Ecology & Environmentalism
Politics & Borders
Economics
Colonialism and its Legacy
Major Events in History
100

This term refers to the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

What is the water cycle?

100

This term refers to having a strong sense of loyalty and pride towards one's country or nation.

What is nationalism?

100

25 of the 30 poorest countries in the world are located here.

Where is Africa?

100

This is a system in which one country rules over one or more colonies, controlling trade with those colonies for their own economic benefit.

What is colonialism?

100

In 1492, he "discovered" the New World, beginning the Age of Exploration and launching a new era of colonialism.

Who was Columbus.

200

This is the gradual wearing away of Earth’s surface by the action of wind, water, ice, and gravity.

What is erosion?

200

This is a political unit that controls a particular territory.  It has a defined territory, a permanent population, a sovereign government, and is recognized by other states.

What is a state?

200

This term is used to describe a country with a less advanced economy.

What is a developing country?

200

This is the second phase of European colonialism in which states sought colonies for resources necessary for industrialization, outlets for overpopulation, and markets for their goods.

What is imperialism?

200

This was a conference held by European countries held in Germany from 1884 to 1885.  It was at this conference that the major European powers divided up Africa between themselves.

What was the Berlin Conference?

300

A region with a wide range of plant and animal species living in it is said to have this.

What is biodiversity?

300

This is a a sovereign state, or country, whose people mostly share a common identity.

What is a nation-state?

300

The exchange of goods and services without much government control is referred to as this.

What is an informal economy (market)?

300

This term refers to the rapid colonization of Africa by European powers after the Berlin Conference in 1884-85.

What is The Scramble for Africa?

300

This was the division of British controlled India into four independent countries: India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Burma.  Between 12 and 18 million people were displaced, and nearly one million people died as a result of this event.

What was the Partition of India?

400

Generating electricity and controlling the flow of water on a river in order to prevent flooding are the two main reasons these are built.  There is a large one found in Egypt!

What is a dam?

400

This term means possessing supreme or independent political power.

What is sovereignty?

400

Despite it's name, the Kalerwe Poor Man's Market in this country draws customers from all walks of life.

What is Uganda?

400

This is the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.

What is decolonization?

400

This was the secret agreement made by France and the British on how to divide up the lands controlled by the Ottomans when the First World War came to an end.

What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

500

A "hole" in this layer of the atmosphere, caused mainly by chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons, has resulted in Australia having one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.

What is the ozone layer?

500

The Defiance Campaign was a peaceful campaign whose purpose was to protest this system in Africa.  This word is of Dutch-Afrikaan origin. 

What is apartheid?

500

This machine is being provided to African women via a UN program.  Among other things, it helps them grind 100 pounds of peanuts in just one hour, rather than three days!

What is a multifunctional platform machine?

500

This was a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race in South Africa.

What was Apartheid?

500

This war ended with a series of treaties which are collectively known as the Peace of Westphalia.

What is The Thirty Years War?

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