Africa Review

This disease has spread quickly throughout Africa since being discovered three decades ago. 

• AIDS
• Smallpox
• Malaria
• Ebola

When nations colonize other lands and control their economies this is known as

• Imperialism
• Monotheism
• Socialism
• Dictatorship

This activity protects land and wildlife while bringing money to some poor countries in Africa.

• ecotourism
• commercial farming
• cottage industry
• subsistence farming

The deliberate killing of a large group of people, like in Rwanda, is known as what?

• genocide
• terrorism
• war
• mutual asured detruction

What physical feature is found primarily in the Congo region of Africa?

• rainforest
• desert
• savannas
• mountains

What segregation of races in South Africa from 1947-1993 called?

• apartheid
• seperateness
• Jim Crow
• apartness

Which statement best characterizes the period of apartheid in South Africa?

• the majority of the population had the right to vote
•  the Boers attempted to conquer Nigeria
• The racist ideas of the ruling minority were made into laws 
• French was declared the official language of the nation

Which is an accurate statement about the partitioning of Africa by Europeans in late 1800's?

•     African unity was encouraged
• new nations were based on old tribal boundaries
•  the cultural and ethnicity of the African people was ignored
•  the continent was divided equally among the colonial  powers

After 1880, European nations sought colonies in Africa primarily because the Europeans were

•  in need of land for their surplus populations
• competing of raw materials and markets
•  determined to bring Christianity to the Muslim world
•  interested in learning geography knowledge of Africa

This person fought against apartheid policies in South Africa eventually becoming its president

• Nelson Mandela
• F.W. de Klerk
• Morgan Freeman
• Mulatu Teshome