Unit+6+Study+Guide


 * Unit 6 Study Guide **
 * Vocabulary**:


 * plateau** - a raised area of relatively level land.
 * Great Rift Valley** - a series of broad, steep-walled valleys that strech from the Red Seato Mozambique.
 * desertification** - the process by which land that can be farmed of lived on turns into a desert.
 * drought** - a long period of time without rain.
 * savannas** - flat grasslands of tropical or sub-tropical regions with scattered trees and shrubs.
 * nonrenewable resources** - resources that cannot be replaced or that can be replaced only over millions of years.
 * renewable resources** - resources that can be replaced and replaced over a relatively short time period.
 * racism** –the belief that one race is inferior to another
 * apartheid** -
 * diversity** - the seperation of one group from another
 * paleontologists** - scientist who study fosiels
 * Tutsi** - a group with 10+ cows
 * Hutu** – a group with 9- cows
 * missionary** – a person that goes to another country for religous resons
 * coup d’état – {french} over throw of a goverment by force**
 * OAU – Orginization of Afircan Unity**
 * mediate – to help find a peaceful solution**
 * Great Zimbabwe –stone ruin of a city made up of three parts**
 * Masai –**
 * Zulu** –


 * Chapter 17 **


 * Section 1**


 * What are some causes of Desertification?**


 * Section 2**


 * Salt was valuable in Ancient Africa, to get salt what did Southern Africa have to trade? Name 3 items.**


 * Section 3 -**


 * What effects did slave trade have on the African cities when the Europeans came?**


 * Why did Europeans want to own the land in Africa?**


 * When and how did the Europeans decide how to divide the African colonies?**


 * How did the European countries decide if you were a Hutu or a Tutsi? Who got the better jobs and education? Was it fair? Why?**


 * Section 4**


 * Many different laws that restrict human rights against blacks in South Africa are caused by what?**


 * Chapter 18 **


 * Section 1**


 * What factors influenced the way in which European nations divided Western and Central Africa?**


 * Chapter 19 **


 * Section 1**


 * Explain how civil war in the recent histories of Somalia and Rwanda caused changes in each country.**


 * Essay: ** (20 points) Use the map on page 510 to help you answer this question.

Answer the following question on a piece of looseleaf paper and put in binder. Remember to **skip lines** and **restate the question in your answer** (topic sentence), and end your essay with a **conclusion**.


 * How might the history of Africa south of the Sahara have been different if it had fewer nonrenewable resources that it does? **

Include the following points in your answer (details that support your topic sentence--five point each):

Africa's specific nonrenewable resources how these resources were traded before the arrival of Europeans how these resources affected Europeans
 * Discuss each**: (5 points each)