Sub- Saharan Africa

Question 1

Three main Climates

Answer 1

Desert, Steppe, Tropical Wet and Dry

Question 2

What Climate Region does most of the population live

Answer 2

Tropical Wet and Dry

Question 3

Main Natural Resource

Answer 3

Lots of ores very valuable

Question 4

How is Global Warming effecting Food

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Global warming effecting water

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Why/ what are they poaching

Answer 6

Elephants are a main target for their ivory.

Question 7

Definition of poaching

Answer 7

Killing animals illegally

Question 8

Boarders decided in 1880

Answer 8

Tribes decided boarders based on physical features

Question 9

1913 boarders

Answer 9

Decided completely by the countries without consulting Africa

Question 10

Name of the conference that decided how to split Africa

Answer 10

Congress of Berlin

Question 11

Current Maps

Answer 11

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

Question 12

First guy to come ‘colonize’ Europe

Answer 12

Cecil Rhodes

Question 13

Imperialist definition

Answer 13

Trying to go build an empire/ concurring

Question 14

How many countries came to the Congress of Berlin

Answer 14

15

Question 15

European views on Africans

Answer 15

They are not human therefore we can treat them poorly

Question 16

Pros of European colonization ( 5 )

Answer 16

• spread religion
• Education
• infrastructure
• weapons
• language ( didnt do it on purpose but helps them now with trading, etc )

Question 17

Cons of European colonization in Africa

Answer 17

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

Question 18

what is a power vacune

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What countries were in the trading triangle

Answer 19

US, Europe, and Africa

Question 20

What did the US bring to the Trading Triangle

Answer 20

Raw material like
- cotton
- sugar
- tobacco
Needed labor

Question 21

What did Europe bring to the Trading Triangle

Answer 21

turn raw materials into
- clothes
- rum
Needed raw materials

Question 22

What did Africa bring to the trading Triangle

Answer 22

Needed finished goods
Had labor

Question 23

What is the middle passage

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Who was sold into slavery

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What was the cat of nine tales

Answer 25

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

Question 26

The viscous cycle or war, weapons, and slavery

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Indigerned servants

Answer 27

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

Question 28

How many were sold into slavery

Answer 28

About 10 million

Question 29

Problem with more men being in slaved

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What caused the economic collapse

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Racism problem for Europeans

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Tight pack on a boat

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Loose pack on a boat

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What did men have to do on the boat

Answer 34

Dance to stay in shape

Question 35

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

Answer 35

True

Question 36

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

Answer 36

True

Question 37

True or false: most people in Africa live in huts

Answer 37

False