Geo chapter 19 assessment

What percentage of Nigerians speak English?

1%

Great Zimbabwe

A city established in what is now Zimbabwe by the Shona around 1000; it became the capital of a thriving gold-trading area

Berlin Conference

A conference of 14 European nations held in 1884-1885 in Berlin, Germany, to establish rules for political control of Africa

Pandemic

A disease affecting a large population over a wide geographic area

Islam

A monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, and the biggest cultural and religious influence in North Africa

Ashanti

A people who live in what is now Ghana, in West Africa, and who are known for their artful weaving of colorful asasia, or kente cloth

Apartheid

A policy of complete separation of the races, instituted by the white minority government of South Africa in 1948

What is the system called that uses family lineages to govern people?

A stateless society

Which African people place a high value on wooden stools?

Ashanti kings

What movement of people helped to bring a sense of unity of language to much of Africa?

Bantu migrations

What are the similarities and differences among the three West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?

Both traded salt and golf, but the both have different cultures and people

What impact did the Berlin Conference have on Africa?

Boundaries were established at the Berlin Conference of 1884-5 in the form of 50 different geographical regions. Many of the borders established in this conference are still in existence today creating conflict amongst the peoples of descendants trying to stake claims to once belonged to their ethnic groups creating sometimes deadly conflicts in recent years. The main fighting is because of the vast amount of natural resources. The 14 European powers that held this conference had no considerations of the peoples of Africa

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

How did East Africa's location help it to become a major international trading center?

Due to the proximity of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean placed it in an area where there was a lot of trading between eastern Europe and Asia.

What prompted the Berlin Conference, and what effects did it have on Africa's culture and economy?

Europe saw Africa as a region of vast natural resources and the nations decided to hold a conference to establish a policy for the nations to divide the continent based on their needs for these resources. The first one who could establish control over an area would receive that land. This divided the continent based on political boundaries. These boundaries had not emphasis on existing cultural boundaries and have implications after colonialism ended

What type of art influenced some of Pablo Picasso's work?

Fang sculptures

Which empire thrived on the gold trade in Southern Africa?

Great Zimbabwe

How have natural resources affected the economy of Southern Africa?

Have helped encouraged trade throughout the economy

Why were the Bantu migrations important in African history?

Helped link various areas of the continent together

1.a How were the precolonial kingdoms of West Africa similar to or different from the precolonial kingdoms of Southern Africa?

In both regions, empires benefited from gold trade and a location on trade routes. Only the West African empires traded for salt.

What is the largest cultural and religious influence in North Africa?

Islam

2.a How did the movement of Islam from Southwest Asia to North Africa affect the African continent?

Islam and Arabic spread from North Africa to other regions

1.b How did colonialism change Africa and its people?

It disrupted cultural and political boundaries and is blamed for causing much of the 20th century violence.

How might the number of languages in Nigeria affect a newly formed democratic government?

Language is a means to relay communication from one group to another. If there are many languages it makes it difficult to relay the information back and forth and provide a means to translate amongst the populus especially in critical situations where time is of the essence

How did stateless societies in Africa differ from centralized governments?

Members of a stateless society work through their differences to cooperate and share power and is based on family lineage. A centralized government dictates or works policies based on a single entity that is in power ir in charge

How was apartheid brought to an end?

Nations around the world pressured the country's government and then the government finally passed new laws

Who led the ANC in the second half of the 20th century and helped to end apartheid in South Africa?

Nelson Mandela

Stateless society

One in which people use lineages, or families whose members are descended from a common ancestor, to govern themselves

Nelson Mandela

One of the leaders of the African National Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the first all-race election in South Africa

What term describes a disease outbreak affecting a large population in a wide geographic area?

Pandemic

Which term is used to describe the policy used to separate blacks and whites in South Africa?

Segregation close. The actual policy is called Apartheid

What meeting by European nations set the rules and conditions for the takeover of Africa?

The Berlin conference

What are some of the problems faced by West African economies?

The govern themselves instead of having a government

What are some of the problems facing education in Central Africa?

There are lots of high school dropouts and there is a shortage on teachers and secondary schools

How have women's roles in North Africa changed over the years?

They have been able to get roles in government and even own their own businesses

2.b What role did natural resources play in the colonization of Africa?

They motivated Europeans to colonize Africa

How did natural resources affect the formation of ancient African kingdoms and empires? Which of the five themes apply to this situation?

Trade in gold aided the growth of ancient African empires located on trade routes.Locations, movement, human-environment interaction.

How did Islam become the biggest influence in North Africa?

Warriors from southwest Asia brought it over

Bantu migrations

When the Bantu people moved southward throughout Africa. On the way they spread their languages and their cultures

Which language group is the most commonly spoken?

Yoruba