Vocabulary
Policy of violent racial segregation in South Africa
WHAT IS APARTHEID?
He spent almost thirty years in prison for his opposition to racism in South Africa
WHO IS NELSON MANDELA?
This African river valley was home to one of the oldest civilizations on Earth
WHAT IS THE NILE?
It was the "Age" when Europeans took over much of the African continent (late 1800s, early 1900s)
WHAT IS THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM?
Unstable democracies in many newly-independent African countries led to these military seizures of power
WHAT IS A COUP D'ETAT?
Saudi Arabia has this type of government that is headed by a king or queen
WHAT IS A MONARCHY?
Great variety of ways of living within a region
WHAT IS CULTURAL DIVERSITY?
Head of Al-Queda - financed the 9/11 attack
WHO IS OSAMA BIN-LADEN?
It's the term for the rapid depletion of nutrients in soil, causing less arable land and more desert
WHAT IS DESERTIFICATION?
It is the term for the European competition to carve out African colonies
WHAT IS THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA?
The only African country to defeat a European nation attempting to imperialize it during the "Scramble for Africa"
WHAT IS ETHIOPIA?
The Kipling poem that makes the case for imperialism in order to uplift the "savage" people who are "half-devil and half-child"
WHAT IS "THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN"?
Attempt to systematically destroy an entire race or ethnic group
WHAT IS GENOCIDE?
Leader of the Kikuyu people / first president of a free Kenya
WHO IS JOMO KENYATTA?
It's the key natural resource of the Middle East, holding about 70% of the world's reserves
WHAT IS OIL?
It's the given surname of the man who modernized and westernized Turkey after the fall of the Ottoman Empire
WHO IS ATATURK?
Arabs were upset when this organization successfully obtained Arab-occupied land for a Jewish homeland
WHAT IS ZIONISM?
The mujahideen were aided by the USA in their struggle against this nation that invaded Afghanistan
WHAT IS THE USSR (SOVIET UNION)?
Idea that all Africans are connected and need to support one another
WHAT IS PAN-AFRICANISM?
He helped to overthrow the Shah in 1979 and then became the leader of Iran
WHO IS THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI?
It's the term for much of Southwestern Asia and Northeastern Africa
WHAT IS THE MIDDLE EAST?
It's the small African country in which a genocide took place in the 1990s
WHAT IS RWANDA?
The political organization that won the first multi-racial election for president in South African history
WHAT IS THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS?
People who have been subject to Israeli occupation ever since the Israeli-Arabic wars such as the "Six Day War"
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
A government headed by religious leaders
WHAT IS A THEOCRACY?
Used Gandhi's methods to get independence for the Gold Coast which was renamed "Ghana"
WHO IS KWAME NKRUMAH?
It's the second largest rain forest on Earth
WHAT IS THE CONGO RAIN FOREST?
The year of the Berlin Conference.
WHAT IS 1884?
There was a European migration crisis in the mid 2010s when this country, led by President Assad, erupted into civil war.
WHAT IS SYRIA?
This declaration during WWI gave official British support for a Jewish homeland
WHAT IS THE BALFOUR DECLARATION?