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Africa Cultural
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This location contains the most continuous known record of humanity (prehistoric human remains). | Olduvai Gorge |
An early civilization that was located in present-day Ethiopia in A.D. 100s. These people regularly traded with people of Egypt and the eastern Roman Empire. | Aksum |
To prevent Europe fromm fighting over African resources, several nations met in 1884-1885 to lay down rules for dividing Africa. No African ruler was invited. | Berlin Conference |
East Africa's busiest slave market closed in 1873. | Zanzibar |
Since European colonization in the 19th century, African countries have relied more on resources such as coffee, tea, and sugar to make quick money. | Cash Crops |
East African ethnic group that lives on the grasslands of the rift valleys in Kenya and Tanzania. | Masai |
An uncontrollable outbreak of a disease affecting a large population over a wide geographic area, such as AIDS in Africa. | Pandemic |
What are some problems created by tourism in Africa? | Some groups in Africa want to eliminate the wildlife reserves to create more farmland for hungry people, however the reserves bring in tourists to look at animals for money. |
An extreme long-term shortage of food that causes widespread hunger and sometimes death to millions of people, which is currently happening in Somalia. | Famine |
Around 814 B.C. a Phoenician queen founded this great ancient city in Africa. | Carthage |
A major religious influence in North Africa that is based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. | Islam |
Oil has transformed the economies of some North African countries, including Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia. This resource is also called ____ _____ . | Black Gold |
Algeria is home to this kind of music developed in the 1920's by poor urban children. | Rai |
North African marketplaces that open early in the morning located in the center of the city. | Souk |
An island off the coast of Senegal that served as one of the busiest points for exporting slaves during the slave trade mid-1500s to 1800s. | Goree Island |
Why did the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai thrive in West Africa? | Gold and Salt were traded |
One in which people rely on family lineages to govern themselves, rather than an elected government or a monarch. | Stateless Society |
Ghana's income relies primarily on the export of... | gold, diamonds, magnesium, and bauxite. |
Where do the worst economic problems in West Africa exist because of the world's highest quality of diamonds located here? | Sierre Leone |
People who live in what is now Ghana, are known for their work in weaving colorful Asasia-what westerners usually call kente cloth. | Ashanti |
West African popular music involves a blend of traditional African music with American forms of... | Jazz, blues, and reggae. |
Beginning around 2000 B.C. in what is now southeastern Nigeria, the people moved southward throughout Africa spreading their language and culture. | Bantu Migration |
A King who became interested in the COngo after it had been explored in the 1870s and wanted to open up trade along the Congo river. | King Leopold II |
Negative economic effects, civil war, and chaos were a result of ____________. | Colonialism |
The Shona established a great city called _____________ in what is now the country of Zimbabwe. | Great Zimbabwe |
In 1948, the white minority government of South Africa instituted a policy of __________, or complete separation of races. | Apartheid |
In 1949, ___________ emerged as one of the great leaders of the African National Congress, and he led a long struggle to end apartheid that resulted in his being imprisoned. | Nelson Mandela |
Poverty-stricken towns in rural areas. | Shanty Towns |