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Chapter 10 michelleb
Chapter 10
Question | Answer |
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goes to another country for religious work | missionary |
African descendants work together to free all Africans | Pan-African |
racial segregation | Apartheid |
apartheid ended | 1991 |
Africans earned right to vote | 1994 |
Earth's only continent | Pangaea |
Two major resources for Africa | diamonds and gold |
What do paleontologists study | fossils |
one of the first major groups of people in Africa | Bantu |
what was the spreading of the Bantu people across Africa | Bantu Migration |
Europeans went to Africa to do what | look for diamonds and gold |
largest lake in africa | lake victoria |
longest river in africa | Nile |
a raised area of level land | plateau |
an area with a series of steep walled valleys | great rift valley |
land in the south and east | highland |
land in the north and west | lowland |
desert spreading | desertification |
highest mountain in africa | Kilimanjaro |
muslim leader who created Mali and took over Ghana | Sundiata |
empire rich in gold known as the Land of Gold and located in the Niger River Valley | Ghana |
empire conquered by Mali and defeated by the Moroccan army | Songhai |
ruler of Mali in 1312 when the empire flourished | Mansa Musa |
a group of traders traveling by camels | caravan |
flat grassland with scattered trees and shrubs | savanna |
belief that one race is inferior to another | racism |
many different cultures and viewpoints | diversity |
what are the 4 climate regions and tell about them | desert-Sahara semiarid-suffering from desertification tropical-rain forests equatorial- 2 rainy seasons and two dry seasons |
why did Africans need salt | stay alive preserve meat trade for other goods |
how did slavery change when Europeans arrived in Africa | raided towns 10 to 12 million were sent to Europe died from starvation and disease US Denmark and UK made slavery illegal slave owners took all the young men so villages suffered |
difference between Hutu and Tutsi | ethnic groups had to carry cards and Tutsi had the most cows so they were treated better |
Why did Madagascar become an island | Tectonic plates near Africa are moving and separating creating rifts |