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Africa Test Study Guide
I. Chapter 22 - West and Central Africa
1. Climate Types/Natural Resources
2. What makes Gambia unique?
3. What makes Liberia unique?
4. What is Desertification? – What causes it? What are solutions?
5. What/Where is the Sahel?
6. What is unique about Timbuktu’s history? What is it like today?
7. Who was Mansa Musa? How did he become so rich?
8. What was traded on the Triangular slave trade? Effects of Slave Trade on Africa?
9. Who was Kunta Kinte? Why is “Roots” important?
10. African Countries Ethnic Diversity - Why so much ethnic diversity?
11. What is Imperialism? What are the goals?
12. Berlin Conference, Major European Countries involved in Imperialism
13. Positives and Negatives of Imperialism
14. What are Dual Economies? Where is Rubber grown? Where is cocao grown?
15. What is West Africa’s “Triple Heritage?”
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II. Chapter 23 East Africa
1. Great Rift Valley - How was it formed?
2. What is unique about Mount Kilimanjaro? Lake Victoria?
3. What animals are found in the Serengeti National Park?
4. Safari - Then vs. Now
5. “Gorillas in the Mist”
What is poaching? Why do it in Africa? Why Gorillas? Climate types for Gorillas
Diseases in Africa - Problem 6. Sleeping sickness - Cause/solution
7. Malaria - Cause/solution
8. HIV/Aids - Cause/solution - Differences in Aids in Africa compared to the U.S.?
9. What is genocide? - Why in Rwanda? Hutus vs. Tutsis?
10. Darfur - Where is it? Why ethnic problems? How is it different than Rwanda?
11. Somalia - What happened in 1993? Why are there pirates in Somalia?
12. Kenyan Population - Problems - Solution?
13. East African Culture - What is Swahili? How did it develop? Why Reggae in Africa?
14. What is unique about early East African History?
Major Religions - Why each has developed where they did?
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III. Southern Africa
1. What is an Escarpment?
2. Madagascar – Biodiversity - Ways to maintain?
3. Namib Desert and Okavango Delta
4. MAIN Resources in South Africa and Southern Africa
5. Why did Europeans first settlements in Southern Africa?
6. Why was South African European settlement different?
7. Apartheid and examples of Apartheid laws
8. African National Congress/ Nelson Mandela
9. Sanctions - Why placed on South Africa?
10. Major Southern Africa Challenges Today
TIMELINE - Done in class
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Map Identifications
1. Great Rift Valley
2. Congo Basin
3. Namib Desert
4. Sahara Desert
5. Sahel
6. Cape of Good Hope
7. Mt. Kilimanjaro
8. Timbuktu
9. Niger River
10. Somalia
11. Darfur
12. Ethiopian Highlands
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Climate type regions
Locate each region on a map ---see page 474
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