Reviewing Africa and South Asia

What do the Berbers, Bedouins, and Masai have in common?

• they are nomadic groups of people in Africa

• they are ruling families in South Asia

• they represented their various countries at the Berlin Conference

• they were leaders of independence movements

What type of jobs do women in Africa primarily work?

• Stay at home

• Diamond mining

• Agriculture

• Oil industry

How have the differences between the people of Sudan led to Civil War and violence?

• The north is desert-like and the south is mostly swampland

• Warring clans have turned to piracy

• Famine has caused warring clans to turn on each other for limited resource

• Intense differences between northern Muslims and Christians in the south exist

Much of Egypt is desert. Therefore, population density is greatest along the Mediterranean Sea and

• Black Sea

• Nile River

• Red Sea

• Brahmaputra River

What are some of the causes of desertification?

• overpopulation, logging, overgrazing and climate change

• savannas, plateaus, and diseases

• savannas, climate change, the Sahel

• overpopulation, climate change, and diseases

What was apartheid?

• a region of Africa

• the segregation of blacks/non-white South Africans

• a natural disaster in 1993

• a religious movement in 1993

Pakistan was created to address the conflict between which two religious groups?

• Sikhs and Christians

• Christians and Hindus

• Buddhists and Muslims

• Muslims and Hindus

In addition to providing water for Indian agriculture, the Ganges River remains important to India because it is

• the only source of Indian hydroelectric power

• a sacred river for the Hindu population

• the birthplace of Hindu culture

• an unofficial boundary between the Hindus and Muslims

Monsoons are...

• long periods of drought

• low temperatures during the planting season

• seasonal reversal of winds that bring long droughts during the summer

• seasonal winds that can bring very heavy rains in summer and dryness in winter

What impact did Hinduism have on Hindu society?

• it promoted the principles of democracy in society

• it encouraged equality among all people

• it divided Indian society into different castes

• all power was given to the maharajahs