Africa Review Sheet
Vocabulary:
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“Lucy”
Missing Link
Desertification
Plateaus
Cataracts
Silt
Malaria
African Sleeping
Sickness
o AIDS
o Trans-Saharan Trade
o Drought
o Desertification
o Age grade system
o Animism
o “Dark Continent”
o Middle Passage
o Slave Diaspora
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Imperialism
Maxim Gun
Congress of Berlin
Boers
Afrikaners
Apartheid
Non-violent Resistant Resistance
Direct Rule
Indirect Rule
Duel Mandate
Flexible Rule
Military Force
Elite
Pan - Africanism
Boycott
Multi National Corporation
Griot
People:
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Mary and Louis Leaky
Mansa Musa
Emperor Menelik II
Nelson Mandela
o Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd
Terms and Concepts:
o 3 Predominant types of vegetation
o Great Rift Valley
o Olduvi Gorge
o Significance of Lake Victoria
o Major river systems in Africa (name, location & significance)
o Significance and location of Victoria Falls
o Significance of Aswan Dam
o Locate regions on map and be able to describe the main features of each
 Sahara
 Sahel
 Ethiopian Highlands
 Savanna
 Swahili Coast
 Rainforest
 Great Lakes
 Southern Africa
o Problem the climate presents for archeologists and historians
o Significance of ancient cities Timbuktu & Lalibela
o Natural Resources available in Africa (where, what, who profits from
them)
o Population- density, growth rate & cultural factors that contribute to it
o # of Ethnic groups
o # of languages
o Describe how climate effects live of people in Africa
o 2 Main colonial powers
o 3 most important values in African cultures
o 2 reasons why many African societies practice polygamy
o 3 major religions practiced throughout Africa and where
o Describe the basic tenets of animism
o Reason why Europeans made contact with Africa
o 2 reasons why Europeans needed African slaves
o Differences between slavery in Africa and in the Americas
o 3 effects the slave trade had on Africans (in Africa)
o Significance of Sierra Leone
o Describe the struggle for Southern Africa between the Zulus, Dutch, and
British
o Identify and describe Apartheid Laws
 Population Registration Act
 Group Areas Act
 Pass Laws
 Bantu Homelands Act
o Reason British system of governing colonies worked well
o Assimilation in French colonies
o Main problems with colonial rule
o 3 ways Europeans impacted the money economy system of Africa
o 3 reasons Africans wanted to control Africa
o 6 improvements made due to colonial rule
o Main problem in the establishment of nationalism
o Developments of educational system lead to independence
o 4 Independent African nations in 1950
o 4 Effects of colonial rule
o 3 Reasons for civil war
o Reason most governmental programs fail
o Background causes of genocide in Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Sierra Leone
o Reason some Africans welcome military rule
o 2 Reasons socialism is appealing
o 3 Describe the problems with African economy
o Reasons people migrated from farms
o Reasons for population problems
o Pressures faced by the education al system
o 5 Reality of city life
o Leading cause of death
o African nation that has slowed spread of AIDS