Regions & Geography
The four regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
What are East, West, Central, and Southern regions?
"White gold" traded in West Africa
What is salt?
Who ended apartheid in South Africa?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The number of people were killed during the genocide
What is 800,000 people killed?
Define a caravan
What is a group of merchants traveling together across desert or trade routes?
This region is known for rainforests and thick vegetation
What is Central Africa?
This animal was crucial for desert trade routes
What are camels?
What were the "pass laws"?
What were legal documents requiring non-white South Africans to carry identification specifying their racial group and limiting their movement?
The trigger of the Rwandan Genocide
What was the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana?
A disease spread from mosquitos
What is Malaria?
Geographical feature that marks the transition between desert and grasslands
What is the Sahel (transitional zone between Sahara Desert and grasslands)?
Describe the Trans-Saharan Trade Network's economic impact
What was a complex trade network exchanging gold, salt, slaves, and other goods across the Sahara Desert, connecting North African societies with Sub-Saharan kingdoms?
Explain how racial segregation was systematically implemented
How did the apartheid system create legal segregation through laws restricting movement, education, property ownership, and social interactions based on race?
Explain how the Belgian colonizers created problems between Hutus and Tutsis.
Belgian policies created Passbooks and giving privilege to Tutsis people.
Government corruption, oppressive political system, poor economies are some examples of what kind of conflict?
What is poverty?
Name two major waterways in Sub-Saharan Africa
What are the Congo River and the Niger River?
How did the Mali Empire generate wealth?
How did the Mali Empire generate wealth through controlled trade routes, taxing merchants, and strategic gold and salt trading?
The language the Tutsis people adopted from the Hutu
What is Bantu language?
The group involved in the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).
Who were the Tutsis people?
Wars and ethnic conflicts have led to what?
What is hunger, poverty, and human rights issues?
Mount Kilimanjaro is located at this location.
Where is East Africa?
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade involved what.
What is forced transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas
What are cockroaches and help eliminate them.
The president and vice president who helped end the Rwandan Genocide
Who is Pasteur Bizimungu as president and Paul Kagame as vice president
Despite challenges, quality of life has improved due to programs funded by:
What is local and international efforts?