Africa Review

1) What are the five sub-regions of Africa? 

North, West, South, East and Central Africa. 

2) Why is East Africa known as the cradle of humanity?

Because this is believed to be where the start of the earth was.

3) What were some early civilizations of East Africa?  What was their economy based on? Askumi, Kilwa are some of the early civilization of East Africa. Trade.

4) What was the Berlin Conference?  Why - particularly - did it happen? The Berlin Conference divided Africa. There were a lot of wars over who does or should own what land.

5) How did colonization cause conflicts in East Africa after independence? Colonization caused conflicts in East Africa after independence by Europeans placed border that paid little attention to groups in Africa.

6) Why are Liberia and Ethiopia important?  Those were the only two countries that remained free from colonization.

7) What are some cash crops of East Africa? Coffee, sugar, and tea. 

8) What is East Africa's most critical health-care problem? AIDS.

9) Name two ancient empires of North Africa? Carthage and the Nile

10) What practices did the world acquire from Ancient Egypt? Farming and Building. 

11) What North Africa countries have had the economies transformed by oil? Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia. 

12) What is Rai? A kind of music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children. 

13) Discuss the changing roles of women in North Africa? Well the women there didn't have much freedom, because the man of the house was in charge of them, but through the years they are getting more and more freedom. 

14) Why is Goree Island important? The island served as one of the busiest points of slave trade. 

15) List three trading empires of West Africa?  What did they trade? Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. Gold and Salt. 

16) What is a stateless society?  How has West Africa's traditional stateless societies caused problems after colonization? A society in which people rely on family lineages to govern.

17) What are some roadblocks to economic development in West Africa? Colonialism.

18) Discuss West African music. Traditional African music is a blend of american forms of jazz, blues, and reggae.

19) What is Bantu important? Is a group of peoples and cultures who speak one of the Bantu languages. 

20) What was Sao Tome established for? Slave trade post.

21) Who was King Leopold II?  Why was he important? King of Belgium, first showed interest in Africa, starting the Berlin Conference. 
Problems for ethnic groups, government instability, and lack of resources.

22) What are the lasting effects of colonialism in Central Africa? Still recovering from the loss of recourses, the disruption of its political systems, and the cultural and ethnic oppression of its people. 

23) What major problems does Central Africa have in education? A shortage of trained teachers, a high dropout rate, and a shortage of secondary schools. 

24) Who ended the apartheid in South Africa? Nelson Mandela

25) How does modern Johannesburg reflect the problems created by the apartheid Developed into two different cities because of their laws about the blacks.