Wednesday, April 22, 2015

1) What are the five sub-regions of Africa? north south east west central

2) Why is East Africa known as the cradle of humanity? It holds the remains of Lucy showing traits of firsts 
signs of humanity

3) What were some early civilizations of East Africa?  What was their economy based on? Trade

4) What was the Berlin Conference?  Why - particularly - did it happen? The Berlin conference was a conference held without African leaders shown to split up Africa into colonies in Europe as well as to stop the Europeans from fighting over land in Africa.

5) How did colonization cause conflicts in East Africa after independence? The Europeans broke apart African cultural areas without establishing new leaders of colonies/countries of Africa.

6) Why are Liberia and Ethiopia important? Ethiopia is important because of their oil and diamonds. Liberia is important because it is international trading port.

7) What are some cash crops of East Africa? Palm oil, sugar cane, tea, coffee, coco,

8) What is East Africa's most critical health-care problem? Aids and HIV

9) Name two ancient empires of North Africa? Alodia, Ancient Egypt

10) What practices did the world acquire from Ancient Egypt? Medicine, Irrigation Farming, Architecture 

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

12) What is Rai? Traditional African music crossed with Middle eastern

13) Discuss the changing roles of women in North Africa? They have the right to divorce, political and business privileges 

14) Why is Goree Island important? It was a prison slave island

15) List three trading empires of West Africa?  What did the trade? gana mali songasta salt golud 

16) What is a stateless society?  How has West Africa's traditional stateless societies caused problems after colonization?

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

18) Discuss West African music. west african music is based on drum beats and rithmic ANGWIG

19) What is Bantu important?

20) What was Sao Tome established for? slave trad and prison ilend 
21) Who was King Leopold II?  Why was he important?he made acsse to central africa 
22) What are the lasting effects of colonialism in Central Africa?
23) What major problems does Central Africa have in education?
24) Who ended the apartheid in South Africa?
25) How does modern Johannesburg reflect the problems created by the apartheid?

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