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Sub- Saharan Africa Flashcards

1
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Three main Climates

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Desert, Steppe, Tropical Wet and Dry

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2
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What Climate Region does most of the population live

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Tropical Wet and Dry

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3
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Main Natural Resource

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Lots of ores very valuable

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4
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How is Global Warming effecting Food

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The desert and step are growing meaning there is going to be a lot more food shortage ( there is already struggling )

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Global warming effecting water

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Again, with global warming the water is getting worse than it already is

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6
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Why/ what are they poaching

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Elephants are a main target for their ivory.

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7
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Definition of poaching

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Killing animals illegally

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8
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Boarders decided in 1880

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Tribes decided boarders based on physical features

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1913 boarders

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Decided completely by the countries without consulting Africa

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10
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Name of the conference that decided how to split Africa

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Congress of Berlin

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11
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Current Maps

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It is a combination of the before and after and it is kinda chunky instead of being separated by physical features

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12
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First guy to come ‘colonize’ Europe

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Cecil Rhodes

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13
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Imperialist definition

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Trying to go build an empire/ concurring

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14
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How many countries came to the Congress of Berlin

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15

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15
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European views on Africans

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They are not human therefore we can treat them poorly

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16
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Pros of European colonization ( 5 )

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  • spread religion
  • Education
  • infrastructure
  • weapons
  • language ( didnt do it on purpose but helps them now with trading, etc )
17
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Cons of European colonization in Africa

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  • slaves in their own country
  • their work did not benefit them
  • destroyed culture
  • chaos when Europe left
  • power vacune
18
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what is a power vacune

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When Europe left there was nobody qualified to lead which made a mess. Think of the example of PD

19
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What countries were in the trading triangle

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US, Europe, and Africa

20
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What did the US bring to the Trading Triangle

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Raw material like
- cotton
- sugar
- tobacco
Needed labor

21
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What did Europe bring to the Trading Triangle

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turn raw materials into
- clothes
- rum
Needed raw materials

22
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What did Africa bring to the trading Triangle

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Needed finished goods
Had labor

23
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What is the middle passage

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The bad boat trip while being traded to the US from Africa

24
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Who was sold into slavery

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Criminals ( or people that were captured during war )
Mainly men

25
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What was the cat of nine tales

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A weapon with three leather straps with bullets in them ( 9 ) to split the backs of slaves that didnt want to listen

26
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The viscous cycle or war, weapons, and slavery

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Needed money, sold captured, needed more captured so went to war to capture, needed weapons for war, needing money, needing slaves.

27
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Indigerned servants

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The ‘owner’ payed for a ( Usually European ) person to come to the US that could not afford it. They re-pay with 7 years of service

28
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How many were sold into slavery

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About 10 million

29
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Problem with more men being in slaved

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More women, therefore less children because it takes two to tango

30
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What caused the economic collapse

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When we stopped buying slaves, then Africa had almost nothing to export, but still needed to buy

31
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Racism problem for Europeans

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Can’t enslave Christians so they enslaved the ‘non’ humans

32
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Tight pack on a boat

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As many people as possible, but many died bc of poor conditions

33
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Loose pack on a boat

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Took better care and took less, so sold the slaves for more in the market

34
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What did men have to do on the boat

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Dance to stay in shape

35
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True or false: sometimes women and children stayed above deck while men stayed below

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True

36
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True or false: some slaves committed suicide rather than being slaves

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True

37
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True or false: most people in Africa live in huts

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False

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