What is Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara?
100
This country is West Africa's only island nation.
What is Cape Verde?
100
This Belgian monarch was unmercifully cruel to the Congolese people, often cutting off the limbs of those that did not meet their rubber quotas.
Who is King Leopold the II?
100
These themes make up the Five Themes of Geography.
What is location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and region?
100
According to the map on p. 485, this is the most abundant resource available in North Africa.
What is oil?
200
This religion made its way from the Middle East to Africa in the 7th century (601-700 C.E.)
What is Islam?
200
These are the three landlocked countries of West Africa.
What are Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali?
200
Francophone and Anglophone represents former colonies of these two former European colonial powers.
Who are speakers of French and English?
200
Farming, herding, mining and industry are all part of this particular theme.
What is human-environment interactions?
200
This type of map shows the capitals and boundaries of each country in the world.
What is a political map?
300
This group of nomadic people are descendants of the Berbers.
Who are the Tuaregs (or the Blue Men of the Desert)?
300
These particular slave masters often treated their slaves like family.
What is an African slave master?
300
Britain, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and one more country were the European powers that had colonies in all of Africa
What is France?
300
These two themes of geography describes the over 65 million people around the world who have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement.
What is movement and what is human-environment interaction?
300
The map on p. 486 shows that this capital of a country has the greatest person per square miles in West Africa.
What is Lagos, Nigeria?
400
In 2014, Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi, did what to himself in order to start a revolution that eventually spread throughout the Arab world in response to the government mistreating it's citizens
Why did he light himself on fire?
400
This is West Africa's only island country.
What is Cape Verde?
400
Both of these groups profited from the slave trade
Who are Europeans and Africans?
400
During the Hometown Project, we learned a word that describes certain words used in this region such as "dawn", "hoagie", "wooder ice", "boul", etc.
What is Philadelphia vernacular (or slang)
400
During the First Crusade of 1096, Christianity began to spread this particular direction according to the special purpose map on p. H6.
What is southeast?
500
This mountain range separates the southern region of North Africa's two largest countries.
What are the Ahaggar Mountains?
500
This group of people tried to secede because they didn't get along with other ethnic groups.
Who are the Igbo?
500
During the colonial era, some Europeans moved to West Africa to run the colonies by building the following (you must name all 3 for credit).
Hint: Look under History and Culture- pp. 520-521
What are schools, roads and railroads?
500
When discussing longitude, latitude or hemispheres in terms of the five themes of geography, this is what someone is referring to.
What is location?
500
You could expect to see lesser signs of a biosphere or hydrosphere in this region of the map on p. 487.