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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Olduvai gorge | a site of fossil beds in northern Tanzania, containing the most continuous record of humanity over the past 2 million yr., including fossils from 65 hominids. |
| homo habilis | first human creatures to make tools. |
| Aksum | an imprt. trading capital from the first to the eighth centuries A.D. in what is now Ethiopia. It flourished due to its location near the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. |
| berlin conference | a conference of 14 European nations held in 1884–1885 in Berlin, Germany, that laid rules for dividing Africa to establish rules for political control of Africa. |
| cash crops | crops grown for direct sale, and not for use in a region, such as coffee, tea, and sugar in Africa. |
| Masai | an East African ethnic group that lives on the grasslands of the Rift Valley in Kenya and Tanzania. Most herd livestock and farm the land. |
| kikuyu | largest ethnic group in Kenya. Homeland is centered around Mt. Kenya. |
| pandemic | a disease affecting a large pop. over a wide area/ uncontrollable outbreak. |
| aids | disease caused by HIV that breaks down the immune system/no cure. |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus – causes the disease AIDS. People can carry HIV for years and never know it. Usually takes years for HIV to develop into AIDS. |
| famine | extreme and long-term shortage of food. Most common cause is drought. |
| Carthage | one of the great empires of Africa situated on a triangular peninsula on Gulf of Tunis on the coast of Mediterranean. |
| cultural hearth | place where ideas and innovations come together to change a region. |
| "gift of the Nile" | the title given to Egypt by the Greek historian Herodotus. |
| Islam | a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of Muhammad/the biggest cultural and religious influence in North Africa. |
| Black gold | oil |
| Souks | north af. marketplace/known for high-pressure sales |
| medina | old section of n. af. town or city. Has narrow, winding streets. |
| rai | a kind of popular Algerian music developed in the 1920’s by poor urban children that is fast-paced w/danceable rhythms & was sometimes used as a form of rebellion. Topics: political unhappiness. |
| Goree island | an island off the coast of Senegal that served as a major departure point for slaves during the slave trade. |
| Ghana | war chief/name given by the Soninke people of W. Af. to their leader. |
| stateless society | one in which people use lineages, or families whose members are descended from a common ancestor, to govern themselves. (don’t rely on govt. or monarch.) |
| Ashanti | a people who live in what is now Ghana, in West Af., and who are known for their artful weaving of colorful asasia, or kente cloth. |
| kente cloth | cloth that contains colorful woven geometric figures w/specific meanings. Only royalty were allowed to wear this. |
| Sankranti | India/celebrates the end of the year’s harvest. People celebrate by eating on traditional banana leaf plates. |
| Bantu migrations | the movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language & culture. |
| king Leopold II | the Belgian King who opened up the African interior to European trade along the Congo River and by 1884 controlled the area known as the Congo Free State. |
| Mobutu sese seko | the leader of Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from its independence in the 1960s until 1997. He brought the country’s businesses under nat’l control, profited from the reorganization, and used the army to control power. |
| fang sculpture | carved boxes containing the skulls and bones of deceased ancestors, created by the Fang, who live in Gabon, southern Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea. |
| Ebola virus | first appeared in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It causes fever, severe pain, and internal/external bleeding. There is no cure, and death can occur within 2–21 days. |
| great Zimbabwe | A city‑state in what is now Zimbabwe, built by the Shona around the year 1000. It became the capital of a thriving gold‑trading area. |
| mutapa empire | a state founded in the 15th century by a man named Mutota and that extended throughout all of present-day Zimbabwe except the eastern part. |
| apartheid | a policy of complete separation of the races, instituted by the white minority government of S. Afr. in 1948. |
| nelson Mandela | one of the leading people of the Afr. Natl. Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the first all-race election in South Afr. |
| qule wa mkulu | dance which reflects the traditional religious beliefs of the Chewa people in South Af. |
| vimbuza | a dance performed by healers who wish to cure people of sickness. |
| Benji dance | dance performed by Yao warriors that pokes fun at what these warriors saw as the desire of the European militaries to march and have parades. |
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