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38 Cards in this Set
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Similarity between Judaism and Islam? |
Both monotheistic |
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What are the two types of Muslim/Islam |
Sunni (majority), Shias |
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Which is NOT an important river of NorthAfrica/Southwest Asia? |
Amazon River |
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Is the Sahara desert the largest or smallest in the world? |
Largest |
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What empire was dismantled after WWI? |
Ottoman |
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How many nations are in Africa? |
53 |
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What is climate change's relationship with desertification? |
It accelerates it |
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What are 2 of the Great African lakes? |
Malawi, Tanganiyka |
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What was the Berlin conference? What were some of the major countries involved? |
Focalpoint on which the European powers got together and divided up the continentfor colonization. France, Germany, Great Britain, Portugal |
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The red sea was formed from a rift between which 2 tectonic plates? |
African, Arabian |
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What is salinization? |
Irrigation used in hot dry environments. The water evaporates leaving behind the salty residue of minerals or other contaminants. |
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What is desertification? |
A set of ecological changes that converts arid lands into deserts. |
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What were some of the early civilizations of the Fertile Crescent? |
Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians |
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When Europe was in the dark ages what did the Arab-Islamic empire do? |
Nurtured learning and economic development. Specifically architecture, math, history, geography, and medicine. |
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What does OPEC stand for? What did it do? |
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Restricted and increased oil production. |
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Describe Orientalism. |
How thewest and academics in the west represent the east. Represented the east asbackward or inferior to the west. Atool for colonization. |
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Who is Edward Sayid? |
Introduced Orientialism |
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Which 3 main groups are fighting for control in Syria? |
Assad, Isis, Free Syrian Army |
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What does the Mercator projection of Africa do to the continent? |
It shrinks it, makes it look the size of Greenland. |
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The great rift valley was a result of what? |
Divergent boundaries. |
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What are divergent boundaries? |
Result of 2 tectonic plates moving away from each other. |
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What are the 4 major rivers in Africa? |
Nile, Niger, Congo, Zambezi |
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Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) |
A band ofatmospheric air currents that circle the globe roughly around the equator. |
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What is Apartheid? |
Separateness. |
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What are the 2 types of Apartheid? Define them. |
Petty- The segregation of everyday spaces (beaches,schools, water fountains, bathrooms). Grand- The creation of entirely new nation-states basedon race. |
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What is a Township? |
Underdevelopedarea on the urban periphery reserved for non-whites. Forced relocation continues today but is class-based. |
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What is significant about Nelson Mandela? |
Firstdemocratically elected president of South Africa. Imprisonedfor 27 years. |
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South Africa's economy is based on what? |
Minerals. |
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Bantu languages in Sub-saharan Africa are allthe same. T or F? |
False |
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What is the population of Sub-saharan Africa? |
800+ million. |
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What percent of Sub-saharan Africa is rural? Africa has the highest rates of what growth? |
2/3. Urban. |
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When did slave trade begin? |
700 B.C.E. |
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When did slave trade begin? |
700 B.C.E |
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TA's first name? |
Dave. |
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Nigeria's oil is located on lands owned by which people? |
The Ogoni. |
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Describe the Cold war? |
US aidedSouth Africa’s apartheid gov’t against Soviet allied government’s. |
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Rwanda had a genocide of how many people? What european country was involved in Rwanda? |
800 thousand. Belgium. |
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What groups were involved in the Rwanda genocide? |
Tutsi, Hutu, Twa. |
