Jared Diamond accredits this geographic disadvantage of the CONTINENT of Africa to Africa's slow development.
What is the North South Axis?
100
This is the highest point in Africa
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
100
In Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya, this National Park is a popular tourist destination
What is Serengeti?
100
Why was farming in Africa difficult (2 reasons)
What is thin soil, little technology, few indigenous crops?
100
____ is why the Bantu people so much more successful than the Khoisan
What is a food surplus?
half credit: because they were further west and north they had better crops and thus were able to make cities
200
_________ is when Crops, animals, and products are spread between societies. it goes east west much better than north south
What is Cultural Diffusion?
200
This country has a climate most similar to Southern Europe
(Spain and Italy)
What is South Africa?
200
Name two important benefits of Lake Victoria
What is fresh water, fishing, transportation, irrigation?
200
The branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. It is animal husbandry: the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas, and sheep.
What is Pastorialism?
200
______ is the study of ancient artifacts to determine the culture or lifestyle of a (frequently ancient) population
What is Archeology?
300
This disease killed off people with weaker immune systems, and allowed the Bantu to better spread across the continent.
What is Malaria?
Will also accept African Sleeping Sickness aka trypanosomiasis
300
This river flows through Egypt, it enables trade and farming in the north. In the South is has too many cataracts for easy trade
What is The Nile River?
300
This is a myth that Africa is poor and unsuccessful because the people are unintelligent or culturally or biologically inferior.
What is the Dark Continent Myth?
300
What was the common currency of Africa?
Trick Question: there was none
300
This is the difference between domestication and tame.
What is genetic engineering ("messing with DNA") to make them larger, stronger, fatter etc?
400
This is Jared Diamond's argument
What is Geographic Determinism:
Geography, continent orientation, indigenous crops and animals determined which peoples were successful
400
Name the four large bodies of water around Africa:
What is the Red Sea, the Mediterranean sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean?
400
_____ is proof that the Indonesians/East Asians came to Madagascar.
What is Periplus of the Eurithean sea and musical instruments?
Anything regarding Indonesian/East Asian culture is half credit
400
This gave African Kings/Chiefs legitimacy
What is Religion, Social Status, Birth Right, the council?
400
______ owned the land within each state in Africa.
Trick Question: No one, land ownership is a strictly European and Asian convention
500
_____ and _____ are the two domesticated grain crops native to Sub Saharan Africa.
What are sorghum and millet?
500
Name three countries of Africa where Trypanosomiasis is at high risk:
What is The DRC, Congo, Angola, Gabon, South Sudan?
500
What makes cities important?
What is Specialization and Bureaucracy?
more quantity and quality
more technology
more variety
military
doctors
law + government
500
Name ten goods traded in Africa:
What is Cloth, Bars of Silver and Gold, Koala Nuts, Ivory, Hides, Slaves, Salt, Food, Tools, Cloth, Iron, Beer/Gin, coins dated 1880, glass figurines?
500
This is the primary way African History is recorded.