Africa Test Review

The pattern of trade that brought Africans to the Americas was called ________________________.

• Circular Trade.

• Sugar Trade.

• Cotton Trade.

• Triangle Trade.

How were Africans taken into the slave trade?

• They were prisoners of war.

• They were captured by Africans from other kingdoms to be traded for weapons.

• They were taken by their own tribal leaders.

• They were convicted of a crime and slavery was their punishment.

Why were slaves taken to the Americas?

• The population was too small so they needed more people.

• Plantations required a great deal of physical labor.

• Many people were needed for the logging industry.

• Gold mines required lots of workers.

Why did European countries want colonies in Africa?

• They needed more land.

• They wanted their natural resources.

• They wanted power.

• They wanted to extend their control outside of Europe.

How was the land in African divided into colonies at the Berlin Conference?

• Great care was taken to divide land with the best interests of the people in mind.

• They used physical features.

• They sometimes used latitude and longitude.

• They divided the land between different languages that were spoken.

What were impacts of dividing Africa at the Berlin Conference?

• Kingdoms were always kept together.

• Rivals and enemies were sometimes put together.

• Kingdoms were sometimes divided between two different colonies.

• Those who spoke the same language were always in the same colony.

Putting rivals together sometimes led to _____________________.

• alliances.

• civil wars.

• independence.

• genocide.

What are factors that led to the Rwandan genocide?

• The Tutsi were always favored by the Belgian colonizers.

• The Hutu had the best jobs.

• The Tutsi generally had a higher standard of living.

• The Tutsi had mistreated the Hutu for years.

How does genocide impact a region?

• Refugees flee to neighboring countries.

• Neighboring countries always join the fighting.

• Genocides often grow to become regional wars.

• There is no impact outside of the small area where the genocide is occurring.

Which region of Africa would you expect to have the lowest population density because of a desert or arid climate?

• Central Africa

• Southern Africa

• Northern Africa

• East Africa