Sub-Saharan Vocabulary Quiz

Seizing political control of other places to create an empire.

• Colonization
• Government
• Decolonization
• Free Market Economy

A term used to describe the Atlantic trade routes between England, Europe, and Africa & where slaves were exchanged for goods.

• Shipping routes
• Triangular trade
• Plantation laborers
• Savanna

A feeling of pride in one's own homeland; a group's identity.

• Caravan
• Triangular Trade
• Nationalism
• Africanism

A group of people united by ties of ancestry, customs & traditions. Often these groups survive without the organization of national government.

• American Indians
• Silent Barter
• Congo
• Tribe

A large flat area of land that is higher than other areas of land that surround it.

• Savanna
• Chaparral
• Mt. Kilimanjaro
• Plateau

The process in which countries controlled by colonial rulers became independent.

• Scramble for Africa
• Decolonizaiton
• Nationalism
• Colonization

Characterized by short woody shrubs & a climate  of mild wet winters and hot dry summers.

• Plateau
• Biome
• Chaparral
• Savanna

A process in which people exchange goods without speaking or contacting each other.

• Silent Barter
• Supply & Demand
• Sahara Desert
• Triangular Trade

A rolling grassland found between the rainforest & desert biome.

• Sahara Desert
• Savanna
• Plateau
• Congo

A group of traders that travel together.

• Caravan
• Gyspy
• Family
• Nomads