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SS Midterm Grade 8 Flashcards

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What are the 5 themes of geography?

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Movement, Location, Human-Environment Interaction, Region, and Place

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What are the 2 basic questions of geography?

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Where are things located?

Why are they there?

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Describe the difference between absolute and relative location

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Absolute= exact location
Relative= landmarks and characteristics
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What are the 8 traits of culture?

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Religion, Art, History, Social Groups, Government, Language, Economy, and Daily Life

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Define indigenous

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Characteristic of that place, often used to describe people

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Define infrastructure

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Structures, buildings, facilities in a country (roads, ports, schools)

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Define paternalism

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Outside power treating people as children who do not deserve rights

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Define assimilation

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Adopting new culture, often forced upon people

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Define boycott

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Refusal to buy a product or good usually in protest

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Define nationalism

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Pride in one’s country

exp. Africa for Africans

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Define subsistence farming

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Only farm what you need, farm for survival/ make a living

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Define specialized economy

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Economy is based on only one thing

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Define monotheism

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Believe in only one god

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Who is the founder of Islam?

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Muhammad

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What are the 5 pillars of Islam?

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If able, pilgrimage to Mecca
Pray five times a day (facing Mecca)
Pay a yearly tax (tithe)
Fast during Ramadan
Believe in one god, Allah
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What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims?

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Shia= want Ali to succeed Muhammad
Sunni= want the best candidate to succeed Muhammad
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What made the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay powerful?

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They were the center of trade, possessed gold and salt mines

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Who was the most powerful leader of Mali?

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Mansa Musa, took a hajj to Mecca and tossed around gold

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What religion spread throughout the West African empires?

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Islam

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What were the roles of Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade?

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Africans sold other Africans into slavery. At first, it was just prisoners of war, criminals, or debtors (people who owed money).

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What were the primary products from each area that participated in the Triangular Trade Route?

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America—Europe: crops like sugar, tobacco cotton
Europe—Africa: weapons and manufactured goods
Africa—America: slaves

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What was the name of the slave portion of the Triangular Trade Route?

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The Middle Passage

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What drove the demand for slaves during the Atlantic Slave Trade?

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To work on plantations

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Why did the Atlantic Slave Trade introduce a racist ideology?

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They justified slavery by claiming Africans were biologically inferior.

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What are the three reasons for European imperialism?

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Economic
Political
Cultural

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What is the reason for economic imperialism?

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Natural resources

Additional markets for European goods

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What is the reason for political imperialism?

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Get more power/land

Make the empire larger

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What is the reason for cultural imperialism?

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Spread religion/culture

Adopt/Civilize African people

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What was the Berlin Conference?

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European countries gathered in Germany to agree on how to divide Africa without fighting. Africans were not present.

30
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Define direct control

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Foreign officials are used to govern

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Define indirect control

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Local rulers govern under oversight from Europeans

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Who was King Leopold II and what did he do?

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King of Belgium, took over the Congo and forced people to work under horrific conditions.

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What made Ethiopia successful?

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Emperor Menelik II negotiated with European powers and stockpiled modern weapons.

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What were the positive effects of colonial rule in Africa?

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Improved sanitation, healthcare, education, infrastructure (roads, railroads, communications), reduce local warfare, economic expansion (African products became valued on global market)

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What are the negative effects of colonial rule in Africa?

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loss of land/independence, artificial boundaries that grouped together enemies and split tribes, unprepared to run a democracy, breakdown of African culture, death brought by Europeans, and families were separated.

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What are the struggles of post colonial Africa?

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Military coups/ military would take over the gov’t

Struggling without knowledge of democracy

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What is apartheid?

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Afrikaans for separate/ a part
Racial segregation in South Africa
148 laws made by white minority

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Who was Nelson Mandela?

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President of the African National Congress
First democratically elected black president of South Africa
Went to jail while fighting for rights

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What are the causes and effects of unequal water distribution?

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Causes= dams, no rain , few rivers
Effects= tension between countries, lack of water for agriculture
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What are the causes and effects of water pollution?

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Causes= sewage, dams reducing fresh water flow, salt water mixing into fresh water
Effects= disease/death
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Why do rentier states limit the rights of their citizens?

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Government makes money selling natural resources so they don’t change taxes for services.
No taxes= no vote

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What are the consequences of unequal distribution of wealth in the oil-rich Middle East?

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Creates tension
Foreign workers are treated poorly
People are suspicious of foreign aid

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What is the difference between ethnicity and religion?

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Ethnicity shares common characteristics. Religion is your belief system.

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Why did the United States organize a coup of the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister in 1953?

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America concerned that Iran might turn into communism

He nationalized Iran’s oil, taking it away from Britain

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Who was the Shah?

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The King of Iran, Reza Pahlavi

Supported western interests by the was corrupt and ruled through terror

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What was the Iranian Hostage Crisis?

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Students stormed US embassy in Tehran and took 66 hostages and demanded the return of the Shah who was in America for cancer treatment. President Carter tried a rescue mission, but it failed. The Shah died, US released Iranian assets and hostages came home once President Reagan was inaugurated.

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