Unit 7: North and West Africa: Unit 8: Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa
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Terms | Definitions |
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 this country is home to the fabled city of timbuktuit was the center of islamic learning in ancient times. the king made a flamboyant hajj to mecca and gave out large supplies of gold | mali |
| atlas moutons cover much of this country 8 miles from spain across the strait of gibraltar | morocco |
| this country voted last summer to split into two separate countries. arab muslims in the north christian farmers in the south | sudan |
| the country was recently freed from the rule of a dictator Muhammad Qaddafi, by a multi- national effort | libya |
| this country overture its dictator, Ben Ali in 2011 and started the 'Arab Spring'. ancient city of carthage was located here | Tunisia |
| along with togo and nigeria this country was home to the yoruba; famous for bronzes | Benin |
| defeated the USA in world cup soccer twice exports gold, diamonds, and bauxite per capita that is twice that of the poorest african country | ghana |
| became africas first independent black nation in 1847 as a homeland for freed slaves; most from america | liberia |
| the boy pharaoh who died at a young age his tomb wasn't discovered until 1921 | Tutankhamen |
| remarkable chinese explorer and admiral reached africa around 1414 | Zheng He |
| type of protest music | rai |
| egyptian god of the underworld | Osiris |
| explorer who rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 | Bartholomew Dias |
| open air marketplaces | souks |
| the christian church in Egypt | coptic christian |
| european country which started the slave trade in europe | portugal |
| largest statue in egypt | great sphinx |
| organs removed from body during mummification are stored in these | canopic jars |
| statuettes buried with the dead in ancient egypt to perform tasks for the desceased | shawabtis |
| egyptian god of embalming protector of mummies | anubis |
| what were the main products traded in the empires of ghana, mali, and songhai? | salt and gold |
| what is a necropolis? | cemetery of an ancient city |
| what is the most famous necropolis on earth | Valley of the Kings |
| colorful cloth woven by the ashanti of ghana is | kente |
| a steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top | escarpment |
| a narrow band of dry grassland that runs east to west along the southern edge of the sahara | sahel |
| river flooded gradually and regularly, enabling the egyptians to be successful farmers | nile |
| huge stores of underground water under the sahara are called | aquifers |
| worlds largest desert | sahara |
| abundant resources in africa | oil diamonds |
| only 20% of the sahara consists of sand (T or F) | true |
| "mummy unwrapping parties" were all the rage in Victorian England (T or F) | true |
| what island off the coast of senegal was the location of a slave fort that eventually 20 million slaves went through | goree island |
| in the yoruba religion, diviners or fortune tellers are called | babalawo |
| the yoruba trickster figure | esu |
| the yoruba believed that ____ brought good fortune | twins |
| which country has a 35% literacy rate, poor roads and transportation system, and once produced some of the worlds highest-quality diamonds | sierra leone |
| a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it | basin |
| worlds longest river | nile river |
| a long narrow valley with steep sides | rift valley |
| one of africas highest mountains | mount kilimanjaro |
| steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top | escarpment |
| water that has come to the surface in a desert | oasis |
| grassland in northern tanzania | serengeti plain |
| uppermost layer of branches | canopy |
| region that contains most of niger's oil | niger delta |
| expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts | desertification |
| dam on the nile river in egypt which increased Egypt's farmable land by 50% and protected it from droughts and floods | aswan high dam |
| sediment | silt |
| most continuous known record of humanity | olduvai gorge |
| important trading capital from the 1-8 century in what is now ethipoia | aksum |
| berlin conference | conference between european countries to avoid fighting for land and lay down rules for dividing africa |
| cash crop | grown for direct sale coffee, tea, and sugar |
| east african ethnic group that lived in the grasslands of the rift valleys in Kenya and Tanzania | masai |
| uncontrollable outbreak of disease | pandemic |
| one of the great cities of ancient africa | carthage |
| people rely on family lineages to govern themselves rather than an elected government or monarch | stateless society |
| mass migration of people spreading their cultures and languages throughout africa | bantu migrations |
| belgian king who opened up the african interior to european trade along the congo river and controlled the area now known as Congo Free State | king leopold II |
| wooden masks with painted facial features and carved boxes that contain the skulls and bones of the desceased | fang sculpture |
| great zimbabwe | shona established city which is now in Zimbabwe |
| state founded in the 15th century by a man named mutota and that extended throughout all of the present day zimbabwe | mutapa empire |
| complete separation of the races | apartheid |
| one of the leaders of ANC who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 | nelson mandela |
| charles taylor | president of liberia forced children to work as child soldiers tried and convicted of crimes against humanity |
| Otto von bismark | man responsible for bringing together berlin conference |
| social darwinism | ... |
| nationalism | belief that people should be loyal to their nation, the people with whom they share land, culture, and history |
| imperialism | ... |
| king mswati III | last absolute monarch |
| joseph dsir mobutu | ... |
| dr. livingston | a missionary, physician, and explorer who searched for the source of the nile and crossed the continent of africa from coast to coast |
| joseph conrad | traveled to Africa in 1889; captain of a Congo river steamboat. |
| FW de Klerk | freed mandela helped end apartheid became vice president of South Africa under mandela |
| henry morton stanley | journalist who uttered the famous words "Dr. Livingston I presume" and was later employed by king leopold to explore central africa |
| edward morel | Launched 1st international human rights movement |
| mobutu sese seko | the corrupt and extravagant dictator of present day democratic republic of congo, who fled the country in 1997 changed the name of congo to Zaire |
| this island established by portugese was the first place used by europeans for trade in african slaves | sao tome |
| what resources did leopold plunder from congo | rubber ivory |
| what river drains more than 1.3 million square miles and crosses the equator twice | congo river |
| only what remained free of european control by 1914 | eithiopia and liberia |
| at the berlin conference the belgium king was given | control of nearly a million miles and the congo |
| the great city of zimbabwe was established by the | shona |
| worlds leader in diamond production | botswana |
| policy of complete separation of the races | apartheid |
| one of the leaders of the ANC | nelson mandela |
| empire extended through most of Zimbabwe | mutapa |
| 4000 white farmers own 1/3 of the best land in this country of 10 million blacks | zimbabwe |
| europeans that caused the downfall of the mutapa empire | portuguese |
| trickster figure for the San bushmen | kaggen |
| awarded nobel peace prize in 1993 | nelson mandela and deklerk |
| who defeated zulu in zulu war in 1879 | british defeated zulu |
| lake which forms part of the western border of tanzania and longest lake in the world | lake tanyika |
| east african ethnic group is known for their intricate beadwork and jewelry as well as using wooden plugs to increase the size of holes | masai |
| first known inhabitants of rwanda | twa |
| after world war 1 _____ took over control of rwanda | belgium |
| tallest free standing mountain in the world | mount kilimanjaro |
| displayed in the bronx zoo in 1906 | ota benga |
| in 1895 rwanda became part of | german east africa |
| the aswan dam is located here and ancient civilization started here thousands of years ago second most industrialized nation in africa | egypt |
| these islands were uninhabited when the portugese arrived in 15th century | sierra leone |
| example of a stateless society the igbo live in this country most populous country in africa | nigeria |
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