Where People Live
What is South Africa?
This religion was spread into Southern Africa during its early history, when Arab traders exchanged goods with the Kingdom of Madagascar.
What is Islam?
Two oceans that border Southern Africa.
What are the Indian and Atlantic Oceans?
The Dutch word for "farmers".
What is "Boers".
One of South Africa's largest ethnic groups.
Who are the Zulu?
Most Southern Africans live here, where small groups of people form villages.
What is the countryside/rural areas?
What is Great Britain?
Largest island nation within Southern Africa.
What is Madagascar?
Name of the Dutch colony founded at the southern tip of South Africa in 1652.
What is Cape Colony?
List two religions that are present within Southern Africa.
What are Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, or traditional African religions.
This explains where the population of the region is distributed toward the eastern coast.
What is the western coast is mostly too dry for living?
The first European settlements in Africa were created for what purpose?
What is trade?
Southern Africa's longest river.
What is the Zambezi River?
This is the name of the Southern African country in which apartheid took place.
What is South Africa?
These are the most widespread languages throughout Southern Africa.
What are indigenous languages?
Southern African desert, also called the Skeleton Coast, that is nearly uninhabitable because it receives such little rainfall throughout the year.
What is the Namib Desert?
War-based people whose empire started in the early 1800s by King Shaka and ended in 1879.
Who are the Zulu?
Name for the waterfalls within Southern Africa that are twice the height and width of Niagara Falls.
What is Victoria Falls?
This major event led to the Boer War in 1899.
What is the discovery of diamonds and gold in the Boer territory?
Rural homes are often made for a mixture of woven sticks, grass, and bark, known as this.
This explains why migration (movement) to the cities is growing.
What are increased job opportunities?
What is civil disobedience?
Etosha Pan, a flat basin in Namibia, contains a large amount of this resource.
What is salt?
Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994 after what major accomplishment?
What is ALL South African citizens were given the right to vote.
This is an environmental issue within Southern Africa today, because ecotourism is limited due to a lack of wildlife.
What is poaching?