Subsaharan Africa

Question 0

What does the inter tropical convergent zone do?

Answer 0

Lots of moisture and rain/band around earth shifts around middle

Question 1

What is ITCZ?

Answer 1

Inter-tropical convergent zone

Question 2

What are some things that cause vulnerability to climate change?

Answer 2

Wealth
Where you live
Cooler areas-no
Warmer-yes

Question 3

What’s subsistence agriculture ?

Answer 3

Growing food for just you and your family

Tenuous life

Question 4

Pastoralism is?

Answer 4

When you depend on your livestock to survive

Ex. Goats

Question 5

What does famine mean?

Answer 5

Not enough time to save or gather food

Question 6

What’s causes famine?

Answer 6

Droughts and climate change

Question 7

Diseases and lets are causing a high what?

Answer 7

Mortality rate in children

Question 8

What are some important needs of these famines counties ?

Answer 8

Quality of water
Nutrition
Health care

Question 9

What is a guinea worm?

Answer 9

A worm that gets in your system when you drink unclean water.it is a pest

Question 10

What is selous game reserve?

Answer 10

55,000 sq km of land that helps preserve animals and land and bring tourists to Africa

Question 11

Kruger national park lets you

Answer 11

Drive yourself through the park without a tour guide

Question 12

Why do people debate on national parks?

Answer 12

Is there too many people going in and out of there and messing up the animals natural habitats

Question 13

What is culling ?

Answer 13

In. Order to maintain populations people will kill animals just to reduce the size

Question 14

What are the pros of culling

Answer 14

Maintains population but that’s about it

Question 15

What are the ons of culling

Answer 15

They could end up killing too many and driving the species to extinction and it’s expensive just to move them
It’s in humane and morally wrong

Question 16

Early empires had what?

Answer 16

It’s of wealth and technology

Question 17

What does precolonial trade mean ?

Answer 17

Places like North Africa, Sahara, and Sahel traded goods for other goods such as rock from Sahara, perfumes from N.A., and leather from Sahel

Question 18

Precolonial slaves

Answer 18

There were slave trades and slave routes and slave markets

Question 19

What did people find in 1000 CE?

Answer 19

West African gold in Europe and Middle East

Question 20

Portuguese were first to find what?

Answer 20

The GOLD

Question 21

1400s-1500s was full of what ?

Answer 21

European exploration

Question 22

In 1482, what was built ?

Answer 22

The el Mona castle set up for a trading post

Question 23

Through the 1500s-1900s what happened to trading posts ?

Answer 23

They spread along the coast: dozens and dozen of them

Question 24

These Posts were beneficial for who?

Answer 24

The Europeans and Africans

Question 25

Cape coast castle was built by who ?

Answer 25

The Swedish in 1653

Question 26

What happened to the coast castle?

Answer 26

It was captured by the British in 1665 and slave dungeons were added int he 1680s.

Question 27

Why was there a demand for slaves?

Answer 27

Developing plantations 
Physical labor 
Wanted to make a profit 
Cheaper 
Easier to enslave people

Question 28

Why didn’t the slavery work?

Answer 28

European diseases killed local population

Question 29

Within African society’s there were laws for what?

Answer 29

Preventing people from abusing slaves but no laws or rights in the Americas

Question 30

What is the royal geographic society?

Answer 30

It supported explorations and was founded in 1830

Question 31

What was the Berlin conference ?

Answer 31

Where set rules for claiming Africa territory was discussed

Question 32

Who wasn’t invited tot he Berlin conference?

Answer 32

The African leaders be they didn’t care what they thought. Only western leaders were there.

Question 33

What is colonialism?

Answer 33

Europeans moved in and told farmers to start growing cash crops and started tenuring the land

Question 34

How did the Europeans talk the local people into colonialism?

Answer 34

They told the leader of the colony and started taxing and to pay the tax you had to pay in European money so the locals HAD to work for the Europeans to pay the taxes they enforced.

Question 35

What is infrastructure?

Answer 35

Railways that lead to coasts to export the cash crops. (This didn’t help the locals)

Question 36

Why were European languages so commonly used back then?

Answer 36

For business(communicate during trade)
There were too many other local languages in use already