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HeathUIL08
UIL Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Angola | Luanda |
| Burundi | Bujumbura |
| Republic of Congo | Brazzaville |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kinshasa |
| Ethiopia | Addis Abada |
| Kenya | Nairobi |
| Liberia | Monrovia |
| Madagascar | Antananarivo |
| Mozambique | Maputo |
| Rwanda | Kigali |
| Somalia | Mogadishu |
| South Africa | Pretoria |
| Uganda | Kampala |
| Zimbabwe | Harare |
| Apartheid | Social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. |
| Arable Land | Agricultural term, meaning land that can be used for growing crops. |
| British South Africa Company | Established by Cecil Rhodes through the amalgamation of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a royal charter in 1889. |
| Desertification | The degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas, resulting primarily from human activities and influenced by climatic variations. |
| Elmina Castle | Erected by the Portuguese in 1482 in present-day Elmina, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast). It was the first trading post built on the Gulf of Guinea. It is the oldest European building in existence below the Sahara. |
| Escarpment | A transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves a sharp, steep elevation differential, characterized by a cliff or steep slope. |
| Ethnic Groups | A group of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of preferential endogamy and/or a presumed or real common ancestry. |
| Gold Coast | British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957. |
| Infant Mortality | The number of deaths of infants (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births. |
| Desertification | The degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas, resulting primarily from human activities and influenced by climatic variations. |
| Elmina Castle | Erected by the Portuguese in 1482 in present-day Elmina, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast). It was the first trading post built on the Gulf of Guinea. It is the oldest European building in existence below the Sahara. |
| Escarpment | A transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves a sharp, steep elevation differential, characterized by a cliff or steep slope. |
| Ethnic Groups | A group of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of preferential endogamy and/or a presumed or real common ancestry. |
| Gold Coast | British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957. |
| Infant Mortality | The number of deaths of infants (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births. |
| Kingdom of Dahomey | Name of a country in west Africa now called the Republic of Benin. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful west African state founded in the seventeenth century which survived until 1894. |
| Land Reform | An often-controversial alteration in the societal arrangements whereby government administers possession and use of land. |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of years of life remaining at a given age. |
| Literacy Rate | Considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. |
| Luanda | The capital and largest city of Angola. |
| Matabeleland | A region in Zimbabwe currently divided into two provinces: North and South. |
| Mau Mau Rebellion | An insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British rule that lasted from 1952 to 1960. |
| Middle Passage | Refers to the forcible passage of African people from Africa to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade. |
| Oil Industry | The global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing petroleum products |
| Rhodesian Front | A political party in Southern Rhodesia when the country was under white minority rule. Led first by Winston Field, and, from 1964, by Ian Smith. |
| Savannas | A tropical or subtropical woodland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. |
| Slave Coast | The name of the coastal areas of present Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria, a fertile region of coastal Western Africa. It became one of the most important export centres for the Atlantic slave trade from the early 16th century to the 19th century. |
| Subsistence Farming | Self-sufficient farming in which farmers grow only enough food to feed the family and to pay taxes or feudal dues. |
| Truth and Reconciliation Commission | A court-like body assembled in South Africa after the abolishment of apartheid. Anyone who felt that he or she was a victim of its violence was invited to come forward and be heard. |
| UNITA | The second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, fought with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and against during the War for Independence (1961–1975) and the ensuing civil war (1975–2002). |
| P.W. Botha | Was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989. |
| Idi Amin Dada | A Ugandan military dictator and the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. |
| F.W. de Klerk | Was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. |
| Stephen Biko | Anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. |
| Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani | The leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). |
| Laurent Kabila | Was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 1997, when he overthrew longtime dictator Mobutu Sese Seko after 32 years of ruling Zaire, until his assassination in January 2001. |
| Paul Kagame | Leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), whose invasion of Rwanda is often cited as the primary reason the Rwandan Genocide came to a close. |
| Cetshwayo KaMpande | The king of the Zulu nation from 1872 to 1879 and their leader during the Zulu War. |
| Jomo Kenyatta | Served as the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya. He Is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation. |
| Seretse Khama | The first President of Botswana. |
| Patrice Lumumba | An African anti-colonial leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped to win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. |
| David Livingston | A British Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. |
| Chief Albert Luthuli | A South African teacher and politician. Luthuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), at the time an umbrella organisation that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa. |
| D.F. Malan | A Prime Minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954. He is seen as the champion of Afrikaner nationalism. |
| Nelson Mandela | A former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections. |
| Thomas Mboya | A prominent Kenyan politician during Jomo Kenyatta's government. |
| Thabo Mbeke | A South African politician who served as President of South Africa from 1999 to 24 September 2008. |
| Joseph Mobuto | The President of Zaire for 32 years (1965–1997) after deposing Joseph Kasavubu. |
| Daniel Arap Moi | The President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002. |
| Robert Mugabe | The current President of Zimbabwe. He has served as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987. Since the run-off election of 2008 his legitimacy as president has been called |
| Mungo Park | A Scottish explorer of the African continent. |
| Cecil John Rhodes | An English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%. |
| Walter Sisulu | A South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). |
| Joe Slovo | A South African Communist politician and long time leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and leading member of the African National Congress. |
| Ian Smith | Served as the Prime Minister of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia from 1964-1965 and as the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1965-1979 during white minority rule. |
| Henry Morton Stanley | A British journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. |
| Morgan Tsvangirai | A Zimbabwean politician, he is the President of the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai and a key figure in the opposition to President Robert Mugabe. |
| Desmond Tutu | A South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. |
| Victoria Falls | A waterfall situated in southern Africa on the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The falls are, by some measures, the largest waterfall in the world. |
| Serengeti Eco-System | An area of grass- and woodland extending approximately 200 miles north-south and 200 miles east-west in an irregular pattern. |
| Sahel | A semi-arid tropical savanna ecoregion in Africa, which forms the transition between the Sahara to the north and the more fertile region to the south, known as the Sudan. |
| Nile River System | A major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. |
| Mozambique Channel | A portion of the Indian Ocean between the island of Madagascar and southeast Africa. |
| Lake Victoria | One of the Great Lakes of Africa. |
| Karoo | A semi-desert region of South Africa. |
| Kalahari Desert | A large arid to semi-arid sandy area in south-western, Sub-Saharan Africa extending 900,000 km² covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. |
| Kalahari Basin | A large lowland area covering over 2.5 million km² covering most of Botswana and parts of Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
| Horn of Africa | A peninsula in East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea, and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. |
| Gulf of Guinea | The part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa. |
| Great Rift Valley | A name given in the late 19th century by English explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trough, approximately 6,000 kilometres in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in East Africa. |
| Eastern Miombo Woodlands | These species-rich savanna ecosystems cover wide areas of the East African Plateau, extending from southern Tanzania to into northern Mozambique and Malawi. |
| Congo River Basin | The largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile). |
| Cape of Good Hope | A rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. |
| Bushveld | A tropical savanna ecoregion of Southern Africa that encompasses most of Limpopo Province and part of the North West Province of South Africa and extends into western Botswana and southern Zimbabwe. |
| African Great Lakes | Series of lakes in and around the geographic Great Rift Valley formed by the action of the tectonic East African Rift. |
| AIDS Epidemic in Africa | Africa is without doubt the region most affected by the virus. Inhabited by just over 12% of the world's population, Africa is estimated to have more than 60% of the AIDS-infected population. |
| ANC-African National Congress | Has been South Africa's governing party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. |
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