World History
Mr. Schwartz
Africa
AFRICA UNIT REVIEW
FOLLOWING IS YOUR STUDY GUIDE WHICH IS BROKEN DOWN TO SHOW YOU HOW TO CREATE FLASH CARDS WITH
THE INFORMATION YOU ARE TO KNOW FOR THE UNIT TEST. THE FIRST ITEM IS DONE FOR YOU; YOU ARE TO MAKE
YOUR OWN FLASH CARDS FOR ALL FOLLOWING ITEMS IN BLUE. GOOD LUCK!!
Geography:
Know that it is a continent
MAKE A FLASH CARD FOR EACH ONE YOU DON’T
# of nations on the continent,
KNOW
How the borders were marked
The wealth of the continent
Know the influences on Africa’s development and be able to give examples of each
BELOW ARE FACTS I TOOK FROM ABOVE STATEMENT AND MADE “FLASH CARDS” - I LISTED INFLUENCES ON ONE
SIDE OF CARD, AND EXAMPLES OF EACH INFLUENCE ON THE BACK OF CARD
INFLUENCES ON AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT -- TRADITIONAL, ISLAMIC, WESTERN
TRADITONAL INFLUENCE ON EARLY AFRICA: MUSIC, SWAHALI LANGUAGE, VOODO, NATIVE LANGUAGE
ISLAMIC INFLUENCE ON EARLY AFRICA: MOSQUES, RELIGION, ARABIC LANGUAGE, CULTURE
WESTERN INFLUENCE ON EARLY AFRICA: LANGUAGES (FRENCH, ENGLISH, SPANISH) CHRISTIANITY
Know role and the importance of major cities/empires in relation to the influences above
Make a flash card for each of the following – CHECK YOUR NOTES
GREAT ZIMBABWE:
GHANA:
SOFALA, KILWA & MOMBASA:
TIMBUKTU:
MALI:
Changes brought to African continent from the Islamic Crusades
ISLAMIC TRADERS CAME THROUGH:
ISLAMIC TRADES BROUGHT THIS TO AFRICA
THE NEW CRY OF ISLAM:
Changes brought by Europeans/four motives of European imperialism/how and why they came
MOTIVES DRIVING IMPERIALISM:
SOCIAL DARWINISM:
EMPIRE:
ECONOMIC:
RELIGIOUS:
MERCANTILISM
Portugal’s trading posts and forts
PORTUGAL: BUILT TRADING POSTS AND FORTS ON COAST THAT IS A FLASH CARD!!!
Importance of enslaved people to the Europeans
SLAV:
MOST IMPORTANT ITEM OF AFRICAN TRADE:
SLAVERY EXISTED:
THEY ENSLAVED DEFEATED FOES:
FIRST EUROPEAN NATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN SLAVE TRADE
PATERNALISTIC:
SLAVE TRADE PROVIDED:
IMPACT OF SLAVE TRADE ON AFRICA:
Expansion of European power and control/Four types of European control over Africa
COLONY:
PROTECTORATE:
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM:
MOST USED FORM OF CONTROL:
First permanent European settlement on African continent: YOU MAKE THIS FLASH CARD ON YOU OWN
Triangular Trade/Who was involved/routes/what was traded/Who benefited and how
TRIANGULAR TRADE:
FIRST LEG:
SECOND LEG – MIDDLE PASSAGE
THIRD LEG:
MIDDLE PASSAGE:
Middle Passage-Be able to describe;
SLAVE SHIPS:
Know advantages and disadvantages of Atlantic Slave Trade
ADVANTAGES OF ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE:
DISADVANTAGES OF ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE:
Africa/The “Dark Continent” WHY AFRICA WAS KNOWN AS THIS
PATERNALISM:
THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN:
ROBERT LIVINGSTONE:
Scramble for Africa – Know what it was/how it impacted African Continent
SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA:
TWO BIGGEST IMPERIALISTS ON AFRICAN CONTINENT:
Berlin Conference/purpose/nations that attended/impact on Africans
BERLIN CONFERENCE:
ETHIOPIA & LIBERIA:
KING LEOPOLD II:
ETHIOPIA:
ERITREA:
African Independence movements/who led/the year when most gained independence/latest to gain independence
INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS LED BY:
MOST AFRICAN NATIONS GAINED INDEPENDENCE DURING THIS TIME:
KWAME NKRUMAH
South Africa
CAPE COLONY:
BOERS:
AFRIKANERS:
ROLE OF BRITISH OF CAPE COLONY:
TRANSVAAL & ORANGE FREE STATE:
STEVE BIKO:
Early Inhabitants of South Africa and what they were known for
BOERS-AFRIKANERS:
GREAT TREK:
Boer War and what it was fought over
BOER WAR:
Apartheid/what it was/who were the Afrikaners/what life was like under Apartheid
APARTHEID:
NELSON MANDELA
ANC
Cry Freedom and Donald Woods
How Apartheid ended and Big Five Term you see here
ECONOMIC SANCTIONS:
GLOBALIZATION:
SOWETO:
PRES. DE KLEK
Big Five
ETHNOCENTRISM:
CULTURAL DIFFUSION:
IMPERIALISM:
GLOBALIZATION:
NATIONALISM:
Genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, Sudan
CAUSES OF GENOCIDE IN RWANDA:
GENOCIDE IN DARFU, SUDAN
Be able to interpret political cartoons