Northwest Africa
Name for Northwest Africa
What is the Maghrib?
Egypt Capital
What is Cairo?
A semiarid transition zone between the Sahara and Savanna.
What is the Sahel?
500 million acres, supports 80 million people, and is home to many different species.
What is the Congo Basin?
What is Kilimanjaro?
Mountain Range in this Region
What is the Atlas Mountains?
Country where a civil war has been fought off and on since 1956.
What is Sudan?
Considered the richest person ever
Who was Mansa Musa?
Bonobos, a type of ape, are only found in this rainforest.
What is the Congo Basin Rainforest?
The coast where City States had great power from 1000-1500 AD
What is the Swahili Coast?
Uprising that started in this region
What is the Arab Spring?
Tribe in Sudan that Salva was a part of
What is Dinka?
10-12 million were taken to the Western Hemisphere from this region of Africa
What are enslaved people?
Rubber, cocoa, coffee are considered this type of crop.
What is a cash crop?
The two European Powers who colonized this region of Africa
What is Germany and Britain?
Name of the three prominent cultural groups in this region.
What is Arab, Berber, Tuareg?
Country Italy tried to colonize but were defeated at the battle of Adwa.
What is Ethiopia?
Called the giant of Africa and is Africa's most populous country.
What is Nigeria?
Africa was divided during this conference.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The name of the country that is heavily effected by refugees coming from Somalia, Sudan, and Congo due to conflict. Hint: Salva went there.
What is Kenya?
The three European powers who colonized this region.
What is France, Italy, and Spain
A group living outside their homeland.
What is a Diaspora?
Western Africa is home to many crops. Name three.
What is Millet, yams, cassava, peanuts, yams, cocoa?
Type of mineral that is mined in the Congo and is used for phones.
What is Cobalt?
This Gorge is home to 2 million year old human fossils.
What is the Olduvai Gorge?