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Who discovered Homo habilis?

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Mary Leakey

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What gorge in northern Tanzania has yielded fossils from 65 individual hominids?

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Olduvai gorge

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What civilization is emerging in present-day Ethiopia?

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Aksum

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What was it called when 14 nations convened to lay down rules for dividing up Africa?

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Berlin conference

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What percentage of East Africa is rural?

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Over 70%

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What are crops grown for direct sale?

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Cash crops

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What are the two major East African ethnic groups?

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Masai and the Kikuyu

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What East African ethnic group lives on the grasslands of the rift valleys of Kenya and Tanzania?

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Masai

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What is the largest ethnic group in East Africa?

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The Kikuyu

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What is an uncontrollable outbreak of disease affecting a large population over a large geographic area?

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Pandemic

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What great city of Africa was founded by a Phoenician queen around 814 B.C.?

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Carthage

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What is another name for Egypt?

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The “gift of the Nile”

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Who ruled Egypt during the Middle Kingdom?

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Pharoahs

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

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Islam

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What does North Africa’s economy revolve around?

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The discovery of oil

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What is Algeria’s major export?

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Oil

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What are North African marketplaces typically located in the old section of a North African town?

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Souks

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What type of music was developed in the 1920’s by poor, urban children?

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Rai

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Women hold what percentage of Tunisia’s parliamentary seating?

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7%

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What island off the coast of Senegal served as one of the busiest points for exporting slaves?

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Gorée Island

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What are West Africa’s three trading empires?

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Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

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Who conquered Ghana?

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Sundiata, a leader of Mali

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What army invaded Songhai, causing the fall of the empire?

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The Moroccans

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What is a society in which people rely on family lineages to govern themselves?

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Stateless society

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What is West Africa’s economic well-being based on?

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The sale of West Africa’s products to industrialized countries

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Which country has the second highest per capita income in West Africa?

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Ghana

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Where are Africa’s worst economic conditions found?

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Sierra Leone

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What is the literacy rate for the population of Sierra Leone?

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31%

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What ruined Sierra Leone’s economy?

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Civil wars

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What African culture is known for their work in weaving colorful asasia, or kente, cloth?

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Ashanti

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Who was King Sunny Ade?

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A popular Nigerian musician

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What was it called when Bantu people moved southward, spreading their languages and culture?

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Bantu migrations

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What country did the Portuguese set up as the initial base of slave trade?

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São Tomé

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Who used forced labor to gather rubber, palm oil, ivory, and other commodities from the African interior?

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King Leopold II

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Who brought the businesses of the Congo under national control and began to profit from reorganization?

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Mobutu Sese Seko

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What African sculpture, seen by Pablo Picasso, was displayed in Paris?

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The Fang sculpture

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What city established by the Shona is now the country of Zimbabwe?

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Great Zimbabwe

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What empire was formed by Mutota to replace Great Zimbabwe?

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Mutapa empire

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What is the separation of races known as?

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Apartheid

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Who fought for the rights of blacks in South Africa?

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Nelson Mandela

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Where are the countries most severely affected by AIDS found?

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South Africa

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