SETTING
The highest mountain in Africa and largest free-standing mountain in the world
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
61 years old, compared to 79 years old in the United States
What is life expectancy?
How stories and poems are often passed down to the next generation
What is orally?
Used to traverse the hot, dry African landscape
What are camels?
Something that is owed or due
What is debt?
Difficult to build to the vast size of the region
What are transportation networks?
Most widely spoken languages due to European colonization
What is English and French?
Fought for equal rights and became South Africa's first black president
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Ruled for over 1,000 years and traded with Egypt, adopting their customs
Who are the Kush?
The deliberate killing of a large number of people
What is genocide?
Transition zone between the dry Sahara to the north and the more fertile savannah to the south
What is The Sahel?
Have the world’s youngest and fastest growing population
What is East and Central Africa?
A system that forced blacks and whites to lead separate lives
What is Apartheid?
Infiltrating a country for economic gain
What is Imperialism?
Have suffered religious persecution under Islamic laws
Who are Christians?
Few of these make it difficult to support trade
What are natural harbors?
the existence of people from a variety of cultural and diverse backgrounds within a single area
What is ethnically diverse?
Farming to provide for the farmer's daily basic needs
What is subsistence farming?
Raw materials to Europe, goods to Africa, slaves to the Americas
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Rural areas have this type of economy
What is traditional?
What is Lake Assal?
The two main religions in the region
What is Christianity and Islam?
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
What is a refugee?
This empire was so rich in trade, with wealth coming from gold and salt
Who is the Mali Empire?
Urban areas have this type of economy
What is free-enterprise?