Vocab
A common language that emerges when countries trade with each other
What is a trade language?
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
Year that several countries in Central Africa gained independence from the European colonizers
What is 1960?
The number of people who live in Central Africa
What is 105 million?
The ocean that borders Central Africa to the west
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The land drained by a river and its tributaries
What is a watershed?
A tuberous plant that had edible roots
European country that held the most territories in Central Africa
What is France?
The most popular trade language in Central Africa during colonial times
What is French?
The largest Central African country (in size)
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Displaced person who has been forced to leave their home because of war or injustice
What is a refugee?
A passage in which fresh water meets salt water
What is an estuary?
Country in Central Africa that was once a territory of Spain
What is Equatorial Guinea?
The biggest religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (Hint: 50% of people practice it)
What is Roman Catholicism?
River in Central Africa that provides livelihood, transportation, and hydroelectric power to the region
What is the Congo River?
A wild grass that produces edible seeds
What is millet?
The wide variety of life on earth
What is Biodiversity?
The way that most prehistoric people in Central Africa got their food
What is hunting and gathering?
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)?
The only country is Central Africa that is landlocked
An action in which a group of individuals seize control of the government
What is a coup?
The political and economic rule of one country over another, usually for profit
What is colonialism?
Pattern of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas with three stages (involved manufactured goods, enslaved people, and raw materials)
What was the Triangular Trade?
Way that most people living in rural areas of Central Africa feed themselves
What is subsistence farming?
The type of climate (warm and wet) in Central Africa because it is close to the equator
What is tropical?