Early East Africa
This area is home to city-states created by merchants trading in the Indian Ocean Trade because the monsoon winds led to and from this area and India, making this area a big part of the Indian Ocean Trade and this area’s language is a combination of Arab and Bantu.
What is the Swahili Coast?
In 1964, British Somaliland united with Italian Somaliland to form this modern-day East African country.
What is Somalia?
This big medieval stone city contained a very large palace that was surrounded by large stone walls that were held together without mortar. It traded between the Indian Ocean trade routes and inner Africa which caused it to have a great economy.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
The Dutch Afrikaaner word for “apartness”, this was the nickname for the system of legalized racial separatism in South Africa which was in place until 1990.
What is apartheid?
This technological innovation helped ships travel through the Indian Ocean and the wind.
What are lateen sails?
This area is home to the oldest form of Christianity and is supposedly home to the Ark of the Covenant.
What is Ethiopia?
Known as "The Butcher of Uganda", this military dictator, whose rise to power was facilitated by British colonial authorities, expelled all Ugandan-Asians, attempted to annex Tanzania, and his rule is thought to have caused 100,000 to 500,000 deaths overall.
Who is Idi Amin?
These 19th and 20th century conflict was between Great Britain and Dutch Settlers for control over South Africa?
What were the Boer wars?
This country, known as Basutoland when it was colonized, was administered as a separate British colony, distinct from the territories that would later form South Africa, despite the fact that those territories surrounded it.
What is Lesotho?
This East African country is commonly thought to be the only country in Africa that was not colonized.
What is Ethiopia?
This was a major East African trading port that many Arab merchants settled in, contributing to cultural diffusion.
What is Mombasa?
This Kenyan rebellion against British colonial rule, led by the Kenya Land and Freedom Army lasted from 1952 to 1960.
What is the Mau Mau Rebellion/Mau Mau Uprising/Kenya Emergency?
These special metals were mined in South Africa, resulting in a demand by imperial powers
What were gold and diamonds?
South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, was a part of this anti-apartheid political party, an offshoot of the African National Congress.
What is the South African Communist Party
This environmental factor helped facilitate the Indian Ocean trade network, which went from the South Asia coast to the East African coast.
What are the monsoon winds?
This event was when people in West Africa moved across sub saharan africa and eventually settled in East Africa, carrying language, culture, and agricultural practices with them.
What is the Bantu migration?
This 1964 revolution was the most violent instance of anti-Arab violence in postcolonial African history, leading to the demise of Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Busaidi and his Arab government, merging his sultanate with the country of Tanzania.
What is the Zanzibar Revolution?
When the native people heard that the British were coming to colonize them, they believed that if they killed all their cattle and destroyed all their crops, they would be safe from the British.
What was the Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement?
This 1913 Act designated only 8% of South Africa's available land for black occupancy, with white people holding 90% of the land, becoming a cornerstone of legalised racial discrimination for the next nine decades.
What is the Natives' Land Act?
This was the year that the Dutch East India Company established permanent settlements in “The Cape” of South Africa.
When was 1652?
These three European imperial powers conquered much of East Africa during the “Scramble for Africa”.
What are Britain, Germany, Italy, and Portugal?
This island, known previously as the Malagasy Republic was initially proclaimed as an autonomous state under the French protectorate on October 14, 1958. A year later a constitution was instated, leading to full independence on June 26th, 1960.
What is Madagascar?
This figure was important in the Age of Exploration and was the first person to travel around the Cape of Good Horn. He was a part of the Portuguese effort that was initiated by Henry the Navigator.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
During the 1850s, the British established this border line between their territory and the territory of the Basotho nation, who were under the rule of King Moshoeshoe.
What is the Warden Line
These are the three capital cities of modern South Africa.
What are Cape Town, Pretoria, and Bloemfontein?