History 600 unit 7 Quiz 3

In 1994, South Africa elected its first ________ president.

Black

Botswana, Eswatini, and Lesotho all asked to become British protectorates to prevent ___________ settlers from stealing their land.

European

The most important religion of Northern Africa is:

Islam

The world's second largest lake, which lies across the borders of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, is

Lake Victoria

What is the capital of Lesotho?

Maseru

Most African nations before 1990 had governments that were either one-party or:

Military

The Suez Canal in Egypt allows ships to pass from the Mediterranean to the ___ Sea.

Red

Whites set up the apartheid system in what country?

South Africa

What country harbors Africa's tallest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro?

Tanzania

South Africa is Africa's most developed nation and the home of the Boer people.

True

Harare is the capital of:

Zimbabwe

Bad ______ causes many African nations with good resources to be very poor.

government

Benin, Dahomey, Kongo, and Aksum were African:

kingdoms

Which desert covers most of North Africa and is growing bigger every year?

sahara

Between the 1400s and 1800s, Europe was primarily interested in Africa as a source of:

slaves

Nigeria's civil war with Biafra was a good example of:

tribalism

Namibia was a German colony conquered by a neighbor during World War I and not freed until 1990.

true

South Africa is Africa's most developed nation and the home of the Boer people.

true

Zimbabwe, once called Rhodesia, had a white-dominated government until 1980.

true