Vocabulary
Geography
History
Colonization/Imperialism
West and Central Africa Today
100
This is a landscape of flat grassland with scattered trees that can survive dry spells.
What is a Savanna?
100
Much of the continent of Africa is this type of landform.
What is a plateau?
100
This item was more valuable to early African Kingdoms than gold.
What is Salt?
100
In the 1400s, African kingdoms began trading with this group of people.
What is the Europeans?
100
When many African countries gained independence from European countries, they did not have much of this to build their society.
What is infrastructure?
200
These are used to track family family heritage and history of a group of people.
What is a griot?
200
Obstacles that make African rivers difficult to navigate.
What is rapids and waterfalls?
200
The Salt trade not only brought goods to the kingdoms, but these civilization building tools as well.
What is education, law, and religion?
200
This item drew the attention of many European traders.
What is gold?
200
80% of people in Mali survive by growing food to eat, this is called.
What is Subsistence Farming?
300
The use of power for personal gain.
What is Corruption?
300
This climate region can be found along the equator.
What is a Tropical Wet Climate?
300
The greatest emperor of Mali ruled from 1312 to 1337 and brought Islam and many other goods and ideas to his kingdom.
Who is Mansa Musa?
300
Thousands of Africans captured to go to the Americas died on this.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Countries rich in resources in West and Central Africa are still not wealthy for this reason.
What is Foreign companies own the rights to the resources.
400
A policy of creating an empire by taking over other areas.
What is imperialism?
400
This affects how people make a living in West and Central Africa.
What is land and climate?
400
This was the first of the greatest empires in West and Central Africa?
What is Ghana?
400
Africans who went to North America and the Carribean took this with them and influenced religion, music, and art.
What is Culture?
400
This makes people more vulnerable to disease.
What is undernourishment.
500
Bodies of public works such as roads, hospitals and schools.
What is Infrastructure?
500
West and Central Africa are home to two of the largest drainage areas in the world, where rainfall over an area of land flows into rivers.
What is a basin?
500
This facilitated the first sign of growth in early kingdoms of Africa.
What is producing more food than was needed?
500
By 1900 this amount of Africa was colonized by European countries.
What is nearly all of it?
500
This resource is helping power many African countries and is also a clean renewable resource.
What is Hydroelectricity?
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