Africa- Exam
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- Great Britain
- first country to end slave trade in 1807
- Kabila
- leader of Dr Congo
- Mussolini
- his economic policy wasn't working, so he decided to invade Ethiopia in 1936
- Menelik II
- leader of Ethiopia who fought Italy
- nigeria
- most populous country in africa
- 70
- % of population of SSA that are farmers
- masai
- nomadic herders, cattle
- Lake chad
- lake NE of Nigeria
- ellen sirleaf-johnson
- pres of liberia
- Savannah
- main vegetation of wet and dry tropics
- Madagascar
- independent nation, 4th largest island on earth
- sudan
- largest country in Africa (geographically)
- lord's resistance army
- joseph kony's army
- libya
- leader is al-Gaddafi
- mansa musa
- mali leader who turned muslim and went to mecca
- Botswana
- country w/ Kalahari
- al-gaddafi
- leader of libya
- kenya
- country that has one of the highest population growth rates in the world
- mugabe
- leader of zimbabwe
- liberia, sierra leone
- two countries known for letting freed slaves in
- 20
- % food production has dropped since 1970 in SS Africa
- Bantu
- largest language family
- Mbeki
- today's president in south africa
- somalia
- country with no govt, anarchy- warlords control everything
- somalia
- country where black hawk down took place
- Strait of Gibraltar
- point where Africa and Europe almost touch
- secular democracy
- nigeria's offical form of govt
- zaire
- country mobutu led
- Cairo
- most populated city in Africa
- the great trek
- term for when boers left capetown in covered wagons
- Niger
- 3rd longest river
- Gabon
- SS country that has oil, now a member of OPEC, gold, uranium, coffee, and cacao
- F.W. de Klerk
- white south african who ended apartheid
- mubarak
- pres of egypt
- Swahili
- a Bantu language, helps unite east Africa
- The great rift valley
- giant depression in E Africa
- sudan, mauritania
- countries where there is modern day slavery
- Congo Free State
- name of country owned by leopold II
- Sahara
- desert in n. Africa
- xianity
- south nigeria religion=
- Cape of good hope
- southern tip of the continent
- dahomey, ashanti
- powerful tribes b/c of slave trade (they sold so many into slavery)
- 20
- at present the population of SS Africa will double in the less than ____ yrs
- 720
- number of people in sub-saharan Africa (in millions)
- gold
- resource that ghana got rich off of
- Bismark
- man who called the Berlin Conference together
- Nyerere
- former pres of tanzania, for socialism
- Blue nile
- what lake tana flows into
- F.W. de Klerk
- elected by whites, wanted to end apartheid in South Africa
- chauvinism
- extreme nationalism
- Boer War
- war between British and boers, rhodes wanted their gold and diamonds
- Jordan, Mozambique
- great rift valley runs from ___ to ___
- Italy
- european country defeated by Ethiopia
- Caucasoids
- primarily arabs and berbers
- british
- winners of boer war
- middle passage
- 2 month long trip across the atlantic ocean for slaves
- charles taylor
- former rebel leader in Liberia who became pres (Mr. Blood Diamond)
- SS
- part of Africa with the lowest standard of living in the world
- Mozambique channel
- body of water that separates Mozambique and Madagascar
- south africa
- country that leads the world in gold production
- Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Victoria falls is b/w ___ and ____
- maathai
- peace prize winner, from kenya
- Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
- MEND=
- national islamic front
- name of sudan's ruling party
- kenya
- country w/ mau mau rebellion
- biafra
- country created by ibo tribe but never recognized by the world
- Tanzania
- country w/ olduvai gorge
- sanctions
- methods the world used to get mandela freed
- Tanganyika
- separates DR congo and Tanzania
- al-gaddafi
- leader of libya
- Mozambique, Madagascar
- Mozambique channel separates ____ and _____
- Kalahari
- desert in Botswana
- West African Patrol
- patrolled routes looking for slave ships, britain's
- SS
- everything south of North Africa (morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, libya and Egypt)
- Morocco, Algeria
- countries that atlas mts. Pass through
- moi
- kenyan president that burned up ivory, later became corrupt
- Canary
- islands west of morocco, Spanish-owned
- ghana
- ancient kingdom that got its wealth from the gold-salt trade
- 25
- % of Africa that is Caucasoid
- Sahel
- western steppe grasslands (n. of equator)
- zaire
- country with 60% of the world's cobalt, copper, gold, iron ore
- afrikaaner
- language that is a mix b/w boers and africans
- Haile Selassie
- emperor of Ethiopia, fled the country when mussolini invaded
- Bantu
- family of negroid people, largest group of African language
- Afrikaaner
- descendant of a Boer
- Adowa
- March 1, 1896 battle
- Dr congo, Tanzania
- Tanganyika separates ____ and _____
- 1500-1807
- years of trans-atlantic slave trade
- Namib
- desert in Namibia
- Desert
- largest biome in Africa
- Sahara
- largest desert in the world
- Drakensberg escarpment
- cliffs along coast, SE
- Kenyatta
- leader of mau mau rebellion
- Tanzania
- country w/ oldest human remains found
- al-Bashir
- leader of sudan
- Odinga
- pm of kenya
- Desmond Tutu
- won Nobel Peace Prize, from south africa
- Lake Victoria
- source of white nile river
- israel
- other country involved in entebbe
- portugal
- country who cut off zimbabwe's trade, destroyed its cities, ruined its economy and caused civil wars
- tanzania
- aka german east africa
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Nigerian poet/environmentalist trying to do things legally to make the oil companies environmentally aware
- Cecil Rhodes
- wanted to connect all of east Africa with a railroad (under the British empire) "Cape to Cairo" Railroad
- masamara
- plain in kenya, continues through tanzania
- Kalahari Desert
- planned location for south african nucleur detonation
- Suez canal
- separates Africa and asia, manmade
- Tropical latitudes
- Africa is the only continent that straddles the three ____ ______
- Red sea
- stands b/w sudan and Saudi Arabia
- trans-atlantic slave trade
- 1500-1807
- libya
- 90% of country is desert
- 900
- number of people in Africa; ____ million
- 3000
- about ____ languages are spoken in Africa
- liberia
- colony formed (now a country) for ex-slaves
- mobutu
- man we gave aid to b/c he wasn't Communist- Took money for himself
- Savannah
- main vegetation of Africa
- 1
- # South Africa was to dismantle nuclear arms
- arabs
- people that ghana traded with
- ghana, mali, songhai
- three ancient west african kingdoms
- language, slavery
- british let boers keep their ____, but made them give up ____
- Nasser
- lake thru sudan and Egypt
- Somalia
- people living S Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya want to combine into larger _____
- nelson mandela
- first black pres of south africa
- Egypt, sudan
- 2 countries w/ lake Nasser
- Azores
- Portuguese islands
- Tanganyika
- 2nd deepest lake in the world
- sudan
- country with a long-standing civil war
- Veld
- savannahs in s. Africa
- Mobutu
- man who took over Zaire in 1965
- Laurent Kabila
- father of leader of DR congo
- ghana
- word that means gold
- Kikuyu, Luo
- two main tribes in kenya
- Tanzania
- Zanzibar is part of _____
- Ngorogoro
- largest crater
- muslim
- in egypt, 89% are _____
- idi amin
- former ugandan dictator
- Olduvai gorge
- where louis and mary leakey found oldest remains of humans
- Tanzania
- home of ngorogoro
- SS
- part of Africa with the world's highest population growth rate
- 10.5
- # of africans sent to americas in millions
- boers
- dutch peasants
- Joseph Kony
- leader of LRA
- Lake tana
- source of blue nile
- mobutu
- man who created socialist economy and nationalized businesses in zaire
- 95
- % of people in sub-saharan Africa that are black
- outlets
- cities on the coast
- Zanzibar
- part of Tanzania
- St. Helena
- napoleon's last prison
- muslim
- sudan: 5% are christian, mostly ___
- Orange Free State, Transvaal
- two Boer Republics created during the Great Trek
- Cameroon
- SS country with lots of crops and resources
- Lake Victoria
- largest lake in Africa
- 8
- % of Africa covered in rainforest: less than___%
- zimbabwe
- kingdom destroyed by the portuguese
- Leopold II
- king of belgium, created congo free state
- ujamaa
- type of socialism created by nyerere
- da gama
- man who told portuguese about zimbabwe's wealth
- Mt. Kenya
- 2nd highest mt in Africa
- Xianity
- most widely practiced religion of negroids
- sharia
- strict islamic law
- ibo
- tribe that wanted to secede from nigeria
- mandingos
- people who lived in mali
- Atlas
- mt. range in NW, largest in Africa
- south
- all of uganda's economic growth is in the ____
- Horn of Africa
- eastern peninsula on which Somalia is located
- 37
- % of SS Africans that have clean water to drink
- Wet and dry tropics
- climate w/ sudan (not country) and veld
- sonni ali
- leader of songhai kingdom
- kibaki
- pres of kenya
- SS
- part of Africa with the world's lowest economic growth rate
- capetown
- city the dutch lost to britain
- Around equator
- location of africa's tropical rainforests
- libya
- north african country with lots of oil; member of OPEC
- coffee
- resource ethiopia has a lot of
- british
- sierra leone was once a ____ colony
- brazil
- where most slaves went
- hutus
- majority in rwanda
- Negroids
- make up 70% of africa's population (group)
- Afrikaans
- dutch combined with African, in south Africa
- oct. 1993
- month and year of Black Hawk Down
- Sudan people's liberation army
- sudanese rebel group
- angola, mozambique
- african colonies of portugal
- SS
- part of Africa with one of the youngest populations
- boers
- dutch people who were offered free transportation to south africa
- Congo
- longest and largest river in sub-saharan Africa
- liberia
- country w/ constitution modeled after US'
- kenya
- country w/ 2 main tribes—Kikuyu (dominant) and Luo
- ANC
- political party in south africa that protested apartheid
- Cecil Rhodes
- PM of Cape Colony
- diamonds
- sierra leone has a lot of _____ (minerals)
- haile selassie
- emperor of ethiopia when mussolini invaded it
- Youngest
- SS Africa has one of the world's ___ populations
- somalia
- country that is mostly Islamic (over 90%)
- Ethiopia, Liberia
- were never taken over by Europeans
- kabila
- man who led zaire after mobutu died
- nigeria
- 1/5 people in sub-Saharan Africa live in this country
- Sierra Leone
- where west african patrol would take freed slaves
- mali
- kingdom that rose after ghana fell
- Mobutu
- leader of Zaire, took U.S. aid $ for himself
- sharia
- ____ has been adopted by 1/3 of Nigeria's 36 states
- Kilimanjaro
- highest mt. in Africa
- Ethiopia
- country w/ lake tana
- 3
- number of tropical latitudes
- timbuktu
- trading center in ancient africa
- tanganyika
- aka tanzania
- Mongoloids
- Asians (Indians, Pakistanis), primarily located in E and S Africa
- apartheid
- hierarchy of all races
- Tanzania
- country w/ Kilimanjaro
- Zambezi
- 4th longest river
- jingoism
- extreme nationalism with a military edge
- slave gun trade
- warring tribes took captives to coast and traded them for supplies
- Zambezi
- river that forms Victoria falls
- White nile
- what lake Victoria flows into
- 2000
- over ____ distinct negroid groups have been identified
- Comoros
- islands east of Mozambique
- Plateau
- africa's main landform
- Deserts, arid steppes
- ___ and ___ ___ cover almost 2/3 of Africa
- Umaru Yar'adua
- pres of nigeria
- Cape verde
- western "hump"
- NElson Mandela
- first black president in south africa
- soweto
- Slum outside of Johannesburg
- brazil
- largest portuguese colony
- Nubian
- desert in NE sudan and east Egypt
- sudan
- country that has oil in the southern part, refineries in the north
- charles taylor
- Would send money to Sierra Leone (they had a civil war) to support rebels to get diamonds
- Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
- countries that border lake Victoria
- kenya
- only country that let da gama refuel
- Libyan
- desert in SW Egypt
- Nelson Mandela
- man with the ANC (African National Congress)who got rid of apartheid
- nigeria
- They are rich in oil, but they can't even make gasoline
- janjaweed
- Arab militia that attack villages, have killed thousands
- National Islamic Front
- Extremist Islamic group that wants to create the first African all-Islamic nation; have their own version of Sharia
- Desmond Tutu
- anglican arch bishop (south african) who won nobel peace prize
- Aswan dam
- manmade construction that created Nasser lake
- 53
- # of countries in Africa
- kenya
- country that is mostly christian (66%)
- kenya
- country that Used to be the model for political stability
- islam
- north nigeria religion =
- Sudan, Saudi Arabia
- red sea stands b/w ___ and ____
- liberia
- country that has a constitution modeled after ours
- John Garang
- former rebel leader in sudan
- belgium congo
- name of congo free state after belgium took over
- Sudan
- eastern steppe grasslands (n. of equator)
- songhai
- kingdom after mali
- tsetse fly
- cause of sleeping sickness, mostly in central nigeria
- 1884-1885
- years of Berlin Conference
- Nigeria
- most populous country in Africa
- serengeti
- tanzania equivalent to kenya plain
- Nasser
- lake created by aswan dam
- mbeki
- pres of south africa
- Congo
- second longest river
- Kabila
- man who renamed zaire Democratic Republic of Congo
- songhai
- kingdom w/ advanced govt--beaucracy
- charles taylor
- Arrested and now in the Netherlands on trial, former president of liberia