ISS 315 Exam 2
What term best describes how the French acted as a colonial power in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Assimilationist
What Countries attended the Berlin Conference in 1884 which divided up Africa?
Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey, and the United States of America.
In which country in Sub-Saharan Africa are the most secure wildlife reserves located?
Botswana
What country has been offering African nations money, loans and man power for building and improving roads, railways, and schools?
China
What major event led to European colonialism in Southwest Asia?
Defeat of the Ottoman empire in world war I
What are the environmental problems facing North Africa/Southwest Asia?
Deforestation, overgrazing, salinization, water shortage NOT HURRICANES
What Middle Eastern country was excluded from the Arab League for 11 years because the country entered into a treaty with Israel?.
Egypt
In what country does the Blue Nile originate?
Ethiopia
Which country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the second largest population in the region?
Ethiopia
What is Sub-Saharan Africa's main trading partner?
European Union
Which of the following locations in the Middle East is NOT an example of EXOTIC River settlement and agriculture?
Found on nile river, Jordan, tigris river, Euphrates river.
What were the three principal European countries that occupied the Middle East after World War 1
France, Britain, Italy
What was the first Sub-Saharan African country to become an independent country following the granting of independence by the United Kingdom in 1957?
Ghana
Congo River characteristics
High elevation Empties into the Atlantic Ocean Ituri Rainforest is in the Congo River Watershed
What group of people lost the most as a result of the Six Day War, with many people from the West Bank becoming refugees?
Palestinians
What term best describes how Belgium acted as a colonial power in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Paternalist
What term best describes how Portugal acted as a colonial power in Sub-Saharan Africa?
exploitation
Which animal is most to blame for the loss of forests in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
goats
What factors have resulted in many of Sub-Saharan Africa's civil conflicts?
the ill conceived boundaries imposed of geographic areas by colonial powers which did not consider the many tribal and linguistic groups
What is transhumance?
the seasonal movement of animals between wet- and dry-season pastures
Why were the Hittites initially more successful in warfare?
the use of iron
What events lead to the decline of west African north-south trade routes through Timbuctoo and the decline of the Kingdom of Songhai?
trade with European powers on ships reduces the value of trading in timbuctoo
What colonial languages, would be the least used in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Spanish
By 2050 the population of Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to be how many people?
2 billion
Fatah and Hamas are what?
2 main Palestinian political parties, Fatah= peaceful Hamas= violent
What is the estimate of the number of people that died in the 1980 war between Iran and Iraq?
200,000 Iraqis 260,000 iranians
In what year was the Gaza strip turned over to the Palestinians?
2005
How many acres of farmland are predicted to be lost in Egypt due to sea level rise from global climate change?.
250,000 acres
According to the lecture, how many refugees have left Syria since the civil war began?
5.6 million
What is the approximate population of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
500 million
In what year did Mohamad receive his first revelation from Allah?
611 CE
What is a kleptocracy?
A state where corruption is so institutionalized that large percentages of the countries wealth is siphoned off
Which country is the unchallenged economic powerhouse in Sub-Saharan Africa?
South Africa
Eighty percent of Egypt's population live within ____ miles of which River?
10 Miles of Nile River
What term best describes how Britain acted as a colonial power in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Indirect rule
You would be most likely to see a Shiite Muslim in which country?
Iran
In which contemporary country of Southwest Asia and North Africa was Mesopotamia primarily located?
Iraq
Which city in Southwest Asia and North Africa contains the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Western Wall?
Jerusalem
What factors did not have historically limited economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Limited natural ports, limited ability to ship goods, limited connection between internal cultures, separation of southern Africa, removal of slaves
What is the Great Escarpment?
Located on the coast starting at the southwest corner of Angola around the southern end of Africa and going to the northeast corner of south Africa, has been an impediment to devlopment
The Austronesian (Polynesian) language family is found in what Sub-Saharan country?
Madagascar
Which countries of Southwest Asia practice dryland agriculture?
Maghreb, Turkey (Anatolian plateau), Iranian Plateau, Yemen Highlands. NOT EGYPT
Mansa Musa came from what West African Empire?
Mali
What Iranian Prime Minister was forced from office in the 1950s because of a "black propaganda" effort by MI-6 and the CIA?
Mohammad Mossadeq
What person is called the founder of modern Turkey and made many social, legal and political changes to the country?
Mustafa Ataturk
What River is a critical source of water for West Africa, especially Mali and Niger?
Niger River
What city is the Sub-Saharan region's only megacity?
Nigeria lagos
The first European colonial power in Sub-Saharan Africa was?
Portugal
Angola, Sao Tome and Mozambique were former European colonies in Sub-Saharan Africa—what is their official language?
Portuguese
What country is the newest country in Sub-Saharan Africa being accepted by the international community as a new country in 2011?
South Sudan
In what region of Sub-Saharan Africa is desertification most severe?
Sahel, Horn of Africa
Why did Professor Wangari Maathai of Kenya win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004?
Started the Green Belt movement in Kenya planting trees
Iran's ability to exert control over this body of water, that plays a major strategic role in the shipment of oil, is a concern to the United States and Europe
Straits of Hormuz
Which countries were colonized by Germany in Sub Saharan Africa?
Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi NOT
The Anatolian Plateau is located in what country?
Turkey
What area(s) were occupied by Israel at the conclusion of the Six Day War?
West bank from Jordan, Golan Heights from Syria, Gaza Heights, Sinai Peninsula
on a population pyramid what would the base of the pyramid show About Sub-Saharan Africa?
Wide base a narrow up, a large young population
Many Houthis, a Shiite group, are in which country?
Yemen
Victoria Falls is located on which Sub-Saharan African River?
Zambezi River
Which of the following rivers provides a major source of electrical power to southern Africa?
Zambezi River
What was the name of a form of Islamic government led by a political and religious successor to the prophet Mohamed?
caliphate
What factors have resulted in continuing political conflict between countries as well as within countries in North Africa and Southwest Asia?
continued presence of former European colonial powers, presence of significant reserves of oil in the region and uneven distribution of those reserves int he regions. competition for limited arable land and water resources. superimposed national boundaries placed on the area by colonial powers after ww1
What concept, approved by the United Nations to end the Six Day War, has resulted in continued conflict in the Middle East?
land for peace
Why is the Mediterranean (north) side of the countries of the Maghreb) more productive for agriculture than the south side?
more rainfall on the north side. orographic effect
Sub-Saharan countries having least HIV-AIDS prevalence?
northern sub Saharan africa
The eastern Mediterranean region of Southwest Asia and North Africa is known as the Levant. What does the name mean?
rising sun
Countries of the Fertile Crescent of North Africa and Southwest Asia?
southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, and parts of Turkey and Iran.
Into which category of agriculture does pastoral nomadism fall?
subsistence
