Africa 1
We are Nigerians and we wish to remain so. We have our own customs
and our own traditions. Our immediate goal should be to develop the
wealth of our country and improve our standard of living."
This quotation is an expression of?
Nationalism
Before the late 1990s, blacks in South Africa were forced to live in?
Bantustans
What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
They were ready to carve up Africa among themselves
The geographic features of the African continent are partly responsible for what?
The cultural diversity in Africa
What is the tiny plastic covering of the tip of a shoelace called?
Aglet
During the 1950s and 1960s, the history of most African countries was characterized by what?
Gaining their independence
In most of the nations of Africa, an important economic problem has been what?
A lack of capital for investment
What was a direct result of European slave trade in Africa?
It promoted a feeling of racial superiority among Europeans
The major occupation of the people who live on the grasslands of Africa is what?
Herding
What is the cross between a donkey and a zebra known as?
Zonkey
Why did United Nations forces intervene in Somalia in December 1992?
To stop widespread famine
What was one factor that contributed to the downfall of apartheid in the Republic of South Africa?
Many foreign countries boycotted South African products
Which European nation first engaged in the African slave trade?
Portugal
Why did westerners in the early 1800s call Africa the "Dark Continent"?
It was unexplored
IF A YELLOW HOUSE IS MADE OF YELLOW WALLS and a green house is made of green walls, and a blue house is made of blue walls, and a white house is made of white walls, then a red greenhouse is made of what?
Glass
In Rwanda, more than 500,000 Tusis died as a result of?
Massacres by Hutu extremists
About half of the Congo Free State died between 1885 and 1908 as a result of what?
Brutal treatment by European companies
What development lead to massive amounts of Africans being sold in the slave trade?
Plantation Agriculture
The "Scramble for Africa" led to the European colonization of the whole African continent EXCEPT what two countries?
Liberia and Ethiopia
IF, DURING A RACE, YOU PASS THE THIRD RUNNER, WHAT POSITION ARE YOU NOW IN?
Third
Cash crops are important to most African countries because why?
So they can be sold abroad to bring money into the country
In the early 1800s, which two groups were competing for control of South Africa?
British and Germans
Most of the rivers in Africa are of little help in transporting large quantities of goods and people why?
To many rapids and waterfalls
In East Africa, east-west travel is hindered by the what?
The Great Rift Valley
What two Presidents died on the same day (4th of July)
Adams and TJ