| A | B |
|---|
| Mansa Mansa | Leader from Mali, responsible for spread of Islam in his society |
| Mary and Louis Leakey | Found bones of early humans in Africa |
| Ewuare | Leader from Benin |
| King Leopold of Belgium | took advantage of Congo Free State for diamonds |
| FW DeKlerk | President of South Africa who worked to end apartheid and freed Mandela |
| Nelson Mandela | leader in the apartheid movement; jailed for 27 years; became 1st black president of South Africa |
| Sunni Ali | Leader of the Songhai people |
| Leopold Sedar Senghor | Senegalese poet who believed in Negritude and later became president of Senegal |
| Apartheid | government policy based on segregation |
| Negritude Movement | encouraged Africans to value their African heritage |
| Pan-Africanism | movement to unite people with African heritage spread across the world |
| Diaspora | spreading/scattering of people |
| Desertification | turning land into desert due to over farming |
| Hydroelectric power | electric power harnessed from rivers |
| Escarpments | area where rivers from the savanna meet coastal plains |
| Black Consciousness | Steve Biko's message that "black is beautiful" and not inferior to whites |
| Why is the Nile important to Egyptian society? | Its yearly floods leave the soil fertile |
| What 4 major climate zones exist in Africa? | Tropical Wet, Tropical Wet and Dry, Desert, Mediterranean |
| What are the 5 regions of Africa? | North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa |
| Compared to the U.S., how big is Africa? | Three times the size of the U.S. |
| What are the major rivers in Africa? | Nile, Congo, Niger, Zambezi |
| Who was the main god in Egyptian religion? | Amon-Re |
| What was the capital city of Kush? | Meroe |
| What early African civilizations declined due to invasion? | Ghana, Songhai, East African Cities |
| What was the African Diaspora | Scattering of Africans around the world - Slavery was one cause |
| Why did European nations want to imperialize Africa? | raw materials |
| What African-Americans supported Pan-Africanism? | Marcus Garvey, WEB DuBois |
| In what ways did African nations try to reduce their dependency on European nations? (after colonialism) | By building their own factories and industry. |
| When did apartheid begin? | 1948 |
| When did apartheid end? | 1994 |
| When it is rainy in the north of Africa, what is it like in the north? | dry (they are opposites) |
| How many countries are there in Africa? | 55 |
| How many languages are there in Africa? | over 10,000 |
| What happened at the Berlin Conference? | European countries divided Africa |
| What were the Boer Wars? | Wars between the Dutch and British settlers in South Africa. |
| Who won the Boer Wars and took over South Africa? | The British |
| What diseases affected Africa? | malaria, yellow fever, bilharzia, AIDS |
