Africa Terms

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

When a person is proud of their country. This is how the British felt when they were taking over many countries of the world.

Question 2

Industrialized

Answer 2

When things that are produced in a country are done with machines an computers. The United States has an Industrialized economy.

Question 3

Diaspora

Answer 3

The spreading of people to new areas. There was a DIASPORA because of the slave trade.

Question 4

Cultural diffusion

Answer 4

When ideas or traditions spread to a new area because people from different countries move in.

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

When people refuse to buy products from a country. This is a peaceful way to protest.

Question 6

Rain Shadow

Answer 6

This is how mountains can affect rain. One side of the mountain gets more rain than the other.

Question 7

Invisible Children

Answer 7

This is the name given to the African children who are hiding so that they are not kidnapped and made to fight a war. They are called invisible because the rest of the world does not know much about it.

Question 8

Parent Country

Answer 8

This is the name for a powerful country that takes over a weaker country.

Question 9

Lop-Sided economies

Answer 9

When a countries economy depends on selling only one or two major products. For example, a country only sells rice - and the crop is bad - they will not make any money that year.

Question 10

Apartheid

Answer 10

This is when the government in South Africa forced people who were not white to live is separate areas and use separate bathrooms and stores and churches from the white people.

Question 11

Imperialism

Answer 11

When the country of Britain went in and took over countries and took the land.

Question 12

Berlin Conference

Answer 12

This was a meeting between European countries that helped to lower the stress in Africa. At the meeting they drew new boundaries for countries in Africa.

Question 13

Afrikaners

Answer 13

names for Dutch settlers in South Africa

Question 14

Boers

Answer 14

names for Dutch settlers in South Africa

Question 15

age-grade system

Answer 15

adulthood training where children learn important life skills

Question 16

Anglo-Saxon Superiority

Answer 16

motive for imperialism that said it was the Europeans’ duty to civilize & westernize Africans

Question 17

Boer War

Answer 17

war that broke out in South Africa between British & Dutch over the control of the gold & diamonds

Question 18

animist religion

Answer 18

belief in spirits inhabiting that natural world

Question 19

cash crop

Answer 19

product that is grown to be sold on the world market & not used by the grower

Question 20

clan

Answer 20

several lineages put together

Question 21

“Dark Continent”

Answer 21

nickname for Africa before the interior was expored

Question 22

desertification

Answer 22

problem in North Africa of the desert expanding & spreading

Question 23

empire

Answer 23

large area ruled by 1 person or family

Question 24

kingdom

Answer 24

large area ruled by 1 person or family

Question 25

escarpment

Answer 25

steep cliffs on the edge of a plateau

Question 26

factories

Answer 26

forts on the African coast where slaves were held until they were loaded onto European ships to be taken to the colonies

Question 27

“Gold Coast

Answer 27

name for West Africa because of all the gold traded for slaves there

Question 28

guerilla warfare

Answer 28

type of warfare where a small force uses hit & run tactics against larger forces; it was used by African colonies to get their independence

Question 29

“The Horn of Africa”

Answer 29

name for East Africa due to its shape

Question 30

hydroelectric power

Answer 30

energy that comes from flowing water

Question 31

leaching

Answer 31

problem in the Tropical Wet climate where the heavy rain washes the nutrients out of the soil

Question 32

lineage

Answer 32

distant kin traced to a common ancestor

Question 33

matriarchal

Answer 33

societies dominated by females

Question 34

Middle Passage

Answer 34

2-3 month journey across the Atlantic made by slaves

Question 35

nomad(nomadic people)

Answer 35

people who move around in search of food and resources

Question 36

Pan-Africianism

Answer 36

movement in the early 1900’s to try to unify all of Africa

Question 37

patriarchal

Answer 37

societies dominated by males

Question 38

Sahel

Answer 38

a semi-arid region south of the Sahara

Question 39

savanna

Answer 39

term for the grasslands in Africa

Question 40

“Scramble for Africa”

Answer 40

term for the race between European nations to colonize Africa

Question 41

silt

Answer 41

very fertile soil left behind when a river floods and then recedes

Question 42

slave raiders

Answer 42

Africans who captured slaves in Africa’s interior & brought them to the coast

Question 43

subsistence farming

Answer 43

farming just enough for your family’s needs

Question 44

Swahili language

Answer 44

mix of Arab & African words brought to Africa by Arab traders

Question 45

Triangular Trade Route

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routes taken by slave traders as they went from W. Africa to the W. Indies, to the N. colonies

Question 46

“triple heritage”

Answer 46

term for the 3 influences on Africa’s culture today: African, European, & Islam

Question 47

tropical wet climate

Answer 47

name for the rain forest or jungles of Africa

Question 48

parent country

Answer 48

name for a European nation that controlled a colony in Africa during the Age of Imperialism