Geography of Africa Vocab

What are areas under the control of another country called?

• Nationalism

• Colonies

• Dictatorship

• Scramble for Africa

What is the process through which a country controls another country?

• Imperialism

• Civil War

• Assimilation

• Indirect Rule

What is a form of government where one person controls the entire country?

• Indirect Rule

• Dictatorship

• Pan-African Movement

• Scramble for Africa

What type of rule did Europeans, particularly Great Britain, use in Africa by appointing local chiefs as enforcers?

• Assimilation

• Colonies

• Indirect Rule

• Nationalism

What movement called for unity among African people and aimed for people of African descent to think of Africa as a homeland?

• Nationalism

• Pan-African Movement

• Imperialism

• Civil War

What was the transport of people from Africa across the Atlantic to become slaves in Europe and the Americas called?

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Imperialism

• Scramble for Africa

• Assimilation

What was the competition between European countries to gain territory and colonies in Africa known as?

• Indirect Rule

• Scramble for Africa

• Nationalism

• Civil War

What is a war between citizens of the same country called?

• Dictatorship

• Civil War

• Pan-African Movement

• Colonies

What is the idea that countries are most successful if the people who live there share some common cultural, historic, or religious beliefs?

• Indirect Rule

• Nationalism

• Scramble for Africa

• Assimilation

What approach to ruling was used by the French, where they forced Africans under French control to adopt the French language and ways of life?

• Dictatorship

• Civil War

• Assimilation

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade