Sub Saharan Africa Review
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Sub Saharan Africa Review
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Category 1 for 1
Question: Where is Mt.
Kilimanjaro? Roughly what
elevation does it reach?
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Category 1 for 1
Answer: Northern Tanzania, over
18,000 ft.
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Category 1 for 2
Question: Name the peninsula that
sticks out into the Arabian Sea
(along with parts of Ethiopia and
Somalia).
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Category 1 for 2
Answer: Horn of Africa
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Category 1 for 3
Question: Define desertification.
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Category 1 for 3
Answer: Expansion of dry/desertlike conditions into areas near
deserts
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Category 1 for 4
Question: What is homo habilis,
where was it found, and how old is
it?
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Category 1 for 4
Answer: First human creatures to
make stone tools; Olduvai
Gorge/Northern Tanzania; 2 Million
Years Old
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Category 1 for 5
Question: A plate boundary
characterized by lakes, deep
geologic trenches, and seismic
activity=
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Category 1 for 5
Answer: Great Rift Valley
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Category 2 for 1
Question: Emerged as one of the
leaders of the African National
Committee; elected South African
President
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Category 2 for 1
Answer: Nelson Mandela
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Category 2 for 2
Question: Define apartheid.
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Category 2 for 2
Answer: Policy of strict separation
of the races adopted in South Africa
in the 1940s after
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Category 2 for 3
Question: Name two natural resources
abundant in the region of South Africa
(not the country, the region)
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Category 2 for 3
Answer: Gold, Diamonds
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Category 2 for 4
Question: Who colonized South
Africa first, and in what year did
they arrive?
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Category 2 for 4
Answer: Dutch/1652
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Category 2 for 5
Question: Tell me the significance
of these percentages.
13%/68%
17%/87%
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Category 2 for 5
Answer: land usage/percent of
population; blacks/whites
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Category 3 for 1
Question: How many years did Nelson
Mandela spend in prison? What year
was he put into prison?
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Category 3 for 1
Answer: 27 years; 1962
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Category 3 for 2
Question: Daily Quadruple!!!!!
-What disease is very prominent in Africa?
-Largest desert in the world? Longest river in the world?
-Ghana, Mali, and Songhai – What were these and where were they
located regionally?
-Define ‘savanna’ –
-What is a ‘one-commodity country’?
-What region did the French end up colonizing?
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Category 3 for 2
Answer: HIV/AIDS; Sahara Desert/Nile River;
Trading Empires/West Africa; Tropical grassland
with scattered trees; Country that depends on one
resource or commodity economically; North Africa
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Category 3 for 3
Question: What year was the
Berlin Conference held? Who
called it together? What was the
Berlin Conference?
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Category 3 for 3
Answer: 1884; Otto Von Bismarck; Conference
held to answer questions and discuss the
partitioning of Africa (“Scramble for Africa)
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Category 3 for 4
Question: Great Zimbabwe was a
thriving _______ - trading empire.
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Category 3 for 4
Answer: Gold
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Category 3 for 5
Question: How did African music and culture
make its way to the Americas, the Caribbean,
Europe, and Asia?
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Category 3 for 5
Answer: Forced migration of enslaved Africans
to other parts of the world
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Category 4 for 1
Question: What is a stateless society, give me
an example, and where are they located?
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Category 4 for 1
Answer: Society in which people rely on
family lineages to govern themselves,
rather than an elected government or a
monarch; Igbo people of southeast Nigeria
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Category 4 for 2
Question: Remember the Nigerian
news article activity we did;
Akierou Awe lost 3 of his sons due
to what?
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Category 4 for 2
Answer: Pipeline burst
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Category 4 for 3
Question: Where did Swahili derive from?
(Think regions and trading)
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Category 4 for 3
Answer: East African trading with people
from the Arabian Peninsula/Southwest
Asia; mixture of Bantu and Arabic
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Category 4 for 4
Question: Name the two countries that were
able to escape colonization after the Berlin
Conference.
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Category 4 for 4
Answer: Ethiopia and Liberia
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Category 4 for 5
Question: What two rivers were
supposed to be open for trade ONLY
following the Berlin Conference
(meaning they were neutral)?
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Category 4 for 5
Answer: Niger and Congo Rivers
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Category 5 for 1
Question: Point out on the map Lake
Victoria and Lake Tanganyika.
http://www.johomaps.com/af/th_africablank.jpg
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Category 5 for 1
Answer: See Map
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Category 5 for 2
Question: The ________ Migrations
helped bring a sense of unity of
language to much of Africa.
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Category 5 for 2
Answer: Bantu Migrations
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Category 5 for 3
Question: True or False
Manufacturing is a main sector of
many African nations’ economies.
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Category 5 for 3
Answer: False (Page 419)
Subsistence Farming and Nomadic Herding
are the primary economic activities
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Category 5 for 4
Questions: There are two main cultural
characteristics that separate North
Africa from Sub Saharan Africa. What
are they?
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Category 5 for 4
Answer: Language (Arabic (North Africa) and
Bantu Linguistic Groups (Sub Saharan Africa);
Islam (North Africa) and Christianity/Animism
(Sub Saharan Africa)
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Category 5 for 5
Question: Remember the Bridging the Atlantic
article we read. Who did Brazilian contracting
companies hire? How are Western nations
assisting Africa financially?
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Category 5 for 5
Answer: Brazilian contracting
companies like to hire locals; Western
powers are helping Africa financially
by forgiving their debts
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