Week 27 Review

What type of government does Nigeria have today?

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

Nigeria has gone through many years of civil war and fighting throughout their country. What type of government rules through military force and keeps its people from making their own decisions?

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

The Great Rift Valley is being formed by….

• the earth’s crust stretching apart until it breaks.

• a volcano constantly erupting.

• a massive river carving out the rock.

• an earthquake that shook the ground until it broke.

Which desert covers part of Northern part of West Africa?

• Mojave desert

• Death Valley

• Gobi desert

• Sahara desert

“Each object on Earth has a spirit. From the rivers to the mountains and the trees in between. All things have a story to tell.”

The excerpt above is referring to which specific religious belief?

• Christianity

• Animism

• Islam

• Judaism

The Atlantic Slave Trade was devastating to millions of families all across Africa. Why was the demand for slave labor so important to the plantation owners in Europe and the New World?

• They wanted Africans to teach them about their culture.

• They wanted to make as much money as possible, and purchasing a slave was cheaper than paying a free man.

• They wanted to give the slaves a better life.

• They needed farming advice from the African people.

Christianity and Islam have been the two main religions in West Africa for many years. How did these religions find their way to this area of Africa?

• Travelers from Europe and Northern Africa brought their religions with them from their home land.

• Religious books were dropped to them from airplanes.

• They searched for information on Google.

• The Pilgrims brought the information over on the Mayflower.

How did the slave trade begin in parts of Africa?

• Europeans boarded ships and sailed to africa and kidnapped people to make them slaves.

• Africans kidnapped some of their own people and offered them up to Europeans to make money from selling them and to get rid of rival tribes.

• Aliens from Mars took them and dropped them off in Europe and the New World.

• Africans decided to go to Europe because it would be a great place to trade pearls and silk.

What type of economic problems exist in Nigeria which is located in western Africa?

• Although Nigeria has the most of the natural resources that are exported from Africa, the people there are very poor because of corrupt government leaders who only want to enrich themselves.

• There are little natural resources in Nigeria to sell.

• The people are all wealthy because of the abundance of natural resources there so they are spoiled and lazy.

• The King of Nigeria gives all the money to the people in South Africa.

The slavery of East Africa along the Indian Ocean coast dates back more than 1,000 years. These particular slaves of Eastern Africa were mostly kidnapped by…

• The pilgrims of the New World

• Plantation owners in America.

• East Africans, Arabs, and Europeans

• Chinese, Japanese,and Americans