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Why salt had a huge importance

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It was used to preserve foods

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Sunni Ali and Askia where leaders of

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Songhai empire

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Western Africa’s earliest empire was known as

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Ghana

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City developed by Mansa Musa that was a center of learning

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Timbuktu

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Two colonies established for free slaves after the abolition of slavery

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Sierra Leon and Liberia

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Mansa Musa gained international fame for his adoption of what religion

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Islam

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At Berlin Conference, European nations agreed to

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Respect each others claims to African territories

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The issue with the Berlin Conference

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No Africans were invited to sit in

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First African state to become a British colony

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Gold Coast

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Two innovations that helped Europeans in Africa

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Maxim gun and medicine

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By 1914, all of Africa was colonized except for these 2

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Liberia and Ethiopia

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Scattering of Africans due to the slave trade

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African Diaspora

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Christian’s belief that is was their duty to spread Western civilization to the uncivilized

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White Man’s Burden

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Largest desert in Africa

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Sahara

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The Gold-Salt trade resulted in

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The growth of powerful kingdoms in western Africa

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The movement to end slavery

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Abolition

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Belief that one culture is better than another

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Ethnocentrism

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A group of people who can trace descent back to one common ancestor

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Lineage

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A traditional African religion in which every object has a spirit

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Animism

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Prosperity of a nation based on the increase of gold supply

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Mercantilism

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Society of friends

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Quakers

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pan-africanism

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movement supported by W.E.B Dubois and Marcus Garvey that wanted unity among all Africans

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W.E.B DuBois

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supported pan-africanism

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kwane Nkrumah

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led Kenya’s independence movement against the British

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Rhodesia

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renamed Zimbabwe; feared majority rule so they created an independent nation

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Robert Mugabe

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was the leader of the independence movement\ of Zimbabwe

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Tanzania

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julius Nyere led the independence movement

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Julius Nyere

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led the independence movement of Tanzania and was democratically elected

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Senegal

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senghor led the independence movement; negritude movement

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lepold Sengor

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famous poet and philosopher who led the independence movement in Senegal. and he was elected the first president also responsible for the negritude movement

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negritude

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encouraged africans to value their heritage

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Rwanda

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were the Hutu and Tutsi people lived

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Afrikaners

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were white south Africans and created the Apartheid

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apartheid

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were laws of segregation along racial lines “separateness”

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pass laws

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black south africans were required to carry them. They listed a persons information. Including if they had permission to work and travel. Also had their criminal convictions and taxes

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Anglican bishop who urged nonviolent resistance against apartheid. He won the nobel peace prize

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sharpsville massacre

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1960; began as peaceful demonstration against pass las. the police opened fire on the unarmed crowd and killed 60 people. This sparked world anger. Te south african government called a state of emergency to regain control. Black south africans retaliated with a general strike

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ANC (African national conference)

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the goal was to end apartheid. The government outlawed the group and the leaders were arrested or went into hiding

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nelson Mandela

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ANC member who ended aparteid

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Soweto uprising

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1976; students protested a new law requiring Afrikaans in public schools

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Afrikaans

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was a combination of english and dutch that was only spoke by the white minority

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Janjaweed

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Arab militias who attacked African in S. Sudan

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