Mr. Doizer- Africa
a comprehensive set of flash cards of Africa for Mr. Doizer's class
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- Desmund Tutu
- Anglican archbishop in South Africa who won the Nobel Peace Prize
- Idi Amin
- Ugandan genocide leader
- Biafra
- the Ibo tribe wanted to separate from Nigeria and create this state
- Greater Somalia
- Somalia wants to combine south Ethiopia, Djbuti, and Kenya to create a ____ _____
- Atlas Mts.
- Africa's largest mountain range
- Egypt
- "Gift of the Nile"
- March 1, 1896
- date of the battle of Adowa
- Tutsi
- minority tribe in Rwanda
- ghost house
- a kind of jail which involves torture
- Desmund Tutu
- "If you want peace, fight for justice."<--adapted bumper sticker from this man's quote
- marginalize
- to render something ineffective
- plateau(s)
- Africa's main landform
- West African Patrol
- patrol started by British which freed slaves from ships
- Ethiopia and Liberia
- 2 countries which were never colonized
- Mongoloid(s)
- ethnic group primarily located in E and S Africa
- 90
- __% of the world's cases of Malaria are in Africa
- Ghana
- gold or name of king of this ancient civilization
- Swahili
- a Bantu language which unites East Africa
- White Nile
- Lake Victoria is the source of this major river
- Raid on Entebbe
- when Idi Amin took hostages on a plane and Isrealis ended up freeing them (except an old lady)
- Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
- countries that border Lake Victoria
- Luo
- lesser dominant tribe in Kenya
- Comoros Islands
- islands east of Mozambique
- Hutu
- majority tribe in Rwanda
- Menelik II
- won the battle of Adowa against the French
- Zambezi (River)
- 4th longest river in Africa
- Tanzania
- country where Africa's largest crater is located
- gold-salt
- Ghana recieved much of its wealth from the ______-_____ trade
- river blindness
- caused by a parasitic worm transmitted by the black fly
- HeHe Uprising
- rebellion against the British in Nigeria in the 1890's
- Zambezi River
- forms the Victoria falls
- National Islamic Front
- Sudan's ruling Party
- Cape to Cairo Railroad
- Cecil Rhodes' idea to connect E. Africa
- Mubarak
- current President of Egypt
- Azores Islands
- Portuguese islands
- desert
- largest biome in Africa
- Ashanti Empire
- African group who fought the British in Ghana in 1874
- Scramble for Africa
- frenzied effort between European countries to colonize Africa
- Afrikaaners
- descendant of the Boers
- Tanganyika
- the elongated body of water which separates DR Congo and Tanzania...deepest lake in Africa
- Brazil
- Portuguese's most important colony
- apartheid
- hierarchery system in South Africa
- 1st woman head of state in Africa
- Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson
- Madagascar
- 4th largest island on Earth
- Mt. Kilimanjaro
- highest mountain in Africa
- Drakensberg
- cliffs along the SE coast
- Lt. Gen. Omar al-Bashir
- current President of Sudan
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
- current President of Libya
- Kikuyu
- dominant tribe in Kenya
- Lake Chad
- lake NE of Nigeria
- Lake Victoria
- largest lake in Africa
- 53
- # of countries in Africa
- Niger (River)
- 3rd longest river in Africa
- St. Helena
- Napoleon's last prison
- Great Trek
- journey of Boers north from South Africa
- Bantu
- largest group of African languages
- Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
- current President of Nigeria
- 2
- Africa is the ___ largest continent
- Mauritania and Sudan
- 2 countries which still have slavery today (alphabetical order)
- New Imperialism
- Europe's interest in Africa
- 900 million
- # of people living in Africa
- sudan (a term)
- savannas North of the equator (stepp grasslands)
- Otto van Bismarck
- called together the Berlin Conference
- Congo (River)
- 2nd longest river in (sub-Saharen) Africa
- Masa Mara
- name of the Serengeti Plain in Kenya
- Eritrea
- country which broke away from Ethiopia in 1993
- Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson
- current President of Liberia
- Joseph Kony
- LRA leader
- Zanzibar
- island part of Tanzania
- Leopold II
- created the Congo Free State and used it for his own territory
- Kibaki
- current President of Kenya
- Strait of Gibraltar
- place where Europe and Africa almost touch
- escarpment
- a long line of cliffs
- Namib Desert
- desert located in Namib
- sahel
- Western part of Africa
- Odinga
- current Prime Minister of Kenya
- Janjaweed
- Arab militants in Sudan
- Mandingo
- people who formed the empire of Mali
- 1/2 million
- # of slaves sent to the United States
- sleeping sickness
- caused by the tsetse fly...spreads to every organ in the body
- Liberia
- country founded with the help of American Quakers
- Sonni Ali
- Songhai's leader who created a bureacracy to help run the government
- Schistosomiasis
- waterborne disease occuring when people come in contact with larvae carried by snails in infested water
- basins
- there are 5 _____, or broad, deep depressions in the earth's surface
- Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
- countries that border Lake Victoria
- 720 million
- # of people in sub-Saharan Africa
- Fulani
- African group who rebelled against the Germans in German East Africa in the 1890's
- jingoism
- extreme nationalism combined with militarism
- Mozambique Channel
- body of water separating Mozambique and Madagascar
- Canary Islands
- Spanish-owned islands west of Morocco
- 70
- __% of the world's cases of HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa
- veld
- savannas in south Africa
- Caucasoid
- ethnic group which makes up 25% of Africa's population
- Kalahari Desert
- desert located in Botswana
- Olduvai Gorge
- site in tanzania where the oldest remains of humans have been found
- Shariah (Shari'a)
- Islamic law
- Horn of Africa
- eastern peninsula on which Somalia is located
- Zimbabwe and Zambia
- border the Victoria Falls
- Boers
- Dutch peasants who settled in South Africa
- negroid
- ethnic group which makes up 70% of Africa's population
- Libyan Desert
- desert in SW Egypt
- Ethiopia
- coffee was 1st discovered here
- Mbeki
- current President of South Africa
- National Islamic Front
- party which controls Sudan
- wet and dry tropics
- climate which sudan and veld are associated
- English and Swahili
- 2 official languages of Kenya
- 900 million
- # of people in Africa
- Christianity
- most widely practiced religion of the negroid people
- Suez Canal
- man-made body of water separating Asia and Africa
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Nigerian poet/environmentalist...executed
- Mansa Musa
- Mali ruler in 1324 who traveled to Mecca, giving gold along the way
- savannas
- main vegetation of Africa
- Timbuktu
- Songhai's great center of learning
- 3,000
- # of languages spoken in Africa
- Masai
- nomadic cattle herders in Kenya
- Moi
- Kenyan leader who burned $2.5 worth of ivory to show their poachers no-tolerance policy
- Carribean and Brazil
- besides the US, the rest of the slaves went here
- 70
- __% of HIV/AIDS cases in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa
- Mobutu
- was President of then called Zaire
- 8
- rainforests cover ___% of Africa today
- Nile (river)
- longest river in the world
- Nigeria
- may have the world's 3rd largest population by 2100
- Mt. Kenya
- second highest mountain in Africa
- Germany and Belgium
- 2 countries who fought to keep their African colonies
- Triangular Trade
- exchange of goods and raw materials between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
- Tanzania
- country where the highest mountain in Africa is located
- Lord's Resistance Army
- "Christian" terrorist group in Uganda
- 2.5 million
- # of people murded in the Rwandan genocide
- Kabila
- current President of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cairo
- most populous city in Africa
- chauvinism
- extreme nationalism
- north
- where the oil refineries in Sudan are located
- Guinea worm
- caused by drinking contaiminated water and results in blisters and sometimes death
- Charles Taylor
- former President of Liberia who mutilated children
- Nambian Desert
- desert in NE Sudan and East Egypt
- 1960
- year marking the biggest turning point for most African nations in their struggle for independence
- The Great Rift Valley
- giant depression in E. Africa that runs from Jordan to Mozambique
- Afrikaans
- language in South Africa which is a combination of Dutch and African terms
- Julius Nyerere
- created Tanzania's social system
- Haile Selassie
- longest ruling emperor...emporer of Ethiopia into 1970's
- Ngorongoro crater
- Africa's largest crater
- Ian Smith
- Zimbabwe's conservative who wanted to prevent black rule
- John Garang
- rebel leader of SPLA in Sudan...died in helicopter
- October 1993
- date of Black Hawk Down
- Mugabe
- current leader of Zimbabwe
- Kenyatta
- 1st President of Kenya...leader during the Mau Mau Rebellion
- Sierra Leone
- former location for freeing slaves, rich in diamonds, has a bad child army
- Sahara
- largest desert in the world
- Gabon
- one of the wealthist countries in Africa
- Boer War
- war between the British and the Boers in which the British looked like bullies (put Boers in concentration camps)
- 10 million
- # of Africans sent as slaves to the Americas
- Kipling
- wrote the "White Man's Burden" about the job of whites to educate/populate the world
- Middle Passage
- two-month-long trip across the Atlantic
- Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
- group for the dipolutification (?) of the Nigerian Delta
- coffee
- main export of Uganda
- Malaria
- second most deadly disease in Africa
- Cape of Good Hope
- southern tip of Africa
- Sudan
- 1st African country to gain its independence
- 20
- sub-Saharan Africa's population will double in the next __ years
- Zulu
- African tribe who fought the British in South Africa in 1870's-80s
- Cecil Rhodes
- Prime Minister of Cape Colony
- Nelson Mandela
- 1st black president of South Africa
- south
- where the oil fields in Sudan are located