Vocab
THIS is an area of the Earth, where elevation changes suddenly, as in a steep cliff. It often (but not always) results in a waterfall.
What is an escarpment?
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
These two resources made the West African empires wealthy. *must get both to receive points*
What are salt and gold?
Most people in SSA are of THIS faith.
What is Christianity?
What is, by merging multiple territories/colonies?
THIS is a bloodsucking fly that occurs only in Africa, transmits sleeping sickness, and is a LARGE part of why most SSA people are subsistence farmers, rather than commercial farmers.
What is the tsetse fly?
The longest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
Around 70% of SSA people work in THIS type of work.
What is agriculture?
THIS was the result of ethnic tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
Farming in SSA began in THIS subregion.
What is the Niger River Valley/West Africa? *will except EITHER or BOTH answers*
THIS is when government officials use their power to gain riches for themselves, by doing things in improper or illegal ways.
People in Africa have built THESE to help transport goods past waterfalls, rapids, and escarpments in rivers.
What are railroads?
THIS was an important resource in ancient times, because it was used to preserve food in hot weather.
What is salt?
THIS is a strategy employed by the European colonizers to maintain control of their colony, involving highlighting the differences between groups, to prevent their uniting against the Europeans.
What is divide and rule?
THIS is the largest ethnic group in southern Africa.
Who are the Zulu?
The scaly mammal found in Africa that eats ants with a long, sticky tongue, and is hunted for food by African tribes.
What is a pangolin?
A significant portion of the world's gold is mined in this SSA nation.
THIS nation has experienced significant civil war due to the conflict over diamond mines.
What is Sierra Leone?
THIS man was the German chancellor who called the Berlin Conference to organize the European colonization of Africa.
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
Building THESE can displace huge populations of people, forcing them to move. This increases poverty levels in SSA.
What are hydroelectric dams?
THIS was a colonial policy in which colonizers choose local leaders to help control the colony.
What was indirect rule?
This area in the southern portion of Africa is rocks and sand dunes, and is slightly cooler/damper than other similar regions due to its location near a coast.
What is the Namib Desert?
THIS event in European history encouraged them to transition from building road-stop ports along Africa's coast to building colonies and taking over.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
THIS was the time in which European countries were competing for land in Africa, disregarding their impacts on the African people and environment.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
South Sudan seceded from Sudan in 2011 because of differences between THESE two groups. *must give both groups to receive points*
Who are Christians and Muslims?