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world geography
chapter 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| explain how east Africa's location helped it become a major international trading center | its location on the Red Sea and Indian Ocean made it easy to trade with Asia |
| Carthage | very important city in North Africa, founded by a Phoenician Queen |
| Souk | marketplace in North Africa |
| The area of Africa and the 2 countries that were the site of famines in the 1980's and 1990's | Somalia, Ethiopia, and Horn of Africa |
| The principal cause of famine | drought |
| Berlin Conference | European nations divided Africa |
| Homo habilis | first humans to make stone tools |
| 3 North Africa countries who economies have been transformed by oil | Lyberia, Algeria, Tunisia |
| East Africa's most critical health problem | Aids |
| Olduvai Gorge | most continuous known record of humanity |
| Rai music | poor urban children |
| Islam | monotheistic religion, based on the teachings of Muhammad |
| The Muslims used what 2 bodies of water to connect North Africa and Europe with SW Asia | Med. Sea and Indian Ocean |
| Why people in East Africa are leaving their farms | to get better jobs in the cities |
| 3 problems facing education in Central Africa | shortage of teachers, high dropout rate, few secondary schools |
| how role of women in North Africa has changed over the years | gotten better jobs, made social progress |
| 2 types of carvings that the Fang were known for | wooden masks, boxes (skulls and bones) |
| pandemic | uncontrollable outbreak of a disease |
| what east Africa is called | cradle of humanity |
| kente cloth | colorful cloth with geometric designs |
| First Europeans to establish the African Slave trade | protugese |
| black gold | oil |
| 2 countries that remained free from European control after the Berlin Conference | Lyberia, Ethiopia |
| Name the 2 men who ended the system of apartheid in South Africa | Mandela, Deklerk |