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57 Cards in this Set
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What is pyrethrum?
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A pesticide made from flowers
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What is malnutrition?
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A disease caused by having an unhealthy diet
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Does Kenya use their farmland for subsistance farming or for cash crops?
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Cash crops
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What is the captial of Kenya?
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Nairobi
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What the largest lake in Africa?
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Lake Victoria
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Where do most Kenyans live?
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The highlands of the southwest region
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What valley runs through Kenya?
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The Great Rift Valley
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What European country made Kenya a colony?
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Britian
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What was the Mau Mau Rebellion?
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The Kikuyu went to war to kick the British settlers out of Kenya - the Kikuyu lost
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What did the British build from Lake Victoria to the coast?
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A railroad
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Who became the president of independent Kenya?
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Jomo Kenyatta
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What was Kenyatta's mission for Kenya?
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harambee - means "pulling together" in Swahili
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What 3 things made Kenya unstable?
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Population grew too fast
fighting of ethnic groups political unrest |
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What is the newest country in Africa?
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Eritrea
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What is strategic value?
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The value of location to nations planning large scale military actions
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What 4 countries are located on the horn of Africa?
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Ethiopia
Eritrea Djibouti Somalia |
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How does Djibouti earn most of their wealth?
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From fees paid to use their ports - France pays lots of money
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Who are FRUD?
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Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy - opposition group in Djibouti
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What is one of the oldest African countries?
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Ethiopia
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What country gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1991?
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Eritrea - making Ethiopia a landlocked country
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What is the capital of Eritrea?
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Asmara - very modern & European in style
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What 2 things have hurt Somalia?
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Civil War
Severe drought in early 1990s |
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What is the largest nation in Africa?
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The Sudan
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What 2 groups have been at war since Sudan became independent in 1956?
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The Muslim Arabs in the North vs. the African Christian/animism groups in the South
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What 3 eastern African countries are landlocked?
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Uganda
Rwanda Burundi |
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What is the Sudd?
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Big swamp area in southern Sudan - means "the Barrier"
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What Ugandan dictator made 300,000 people "disappear"?
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Idi Amin
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What is ethnocracy?
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A government where 1 ethnic group rules the others
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What 2 countries havae ethnocracy type governments?
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Rwanda & Burundi
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What 2 ethnic groups make up Rwanda?
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Hutu - 90%
Tutsi - 10% aka Watusi |
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What was villagization?
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Rural people forced to move into towns to work on collective farms
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What is the 2nd poorest country in Africa?
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Tanzania
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What ethnic group controlled South Africa?
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The white minority
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What is apartheid?
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Means "apartness" - black South Africans had to live apart from the white minority
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Wht European settlers came to South Africa after the original Dutch/German/French?
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The British - who asserted British rule over everyone
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What 2 names were the European settlers of South Africa called?
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Afrikaners or Boers
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What caused the Afrikaners to accept British rule?
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The winning of the Boer War by the British
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What was the name of the land that black South Africans were forced to move to?
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Reserves
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What 4 things helped South Africa become the wealthiest African nation?
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Cheap energy - lots of coal
Lots of capital Strong ties to Europe Cheap labor of Black S.Africans |
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What were the South African homelands?
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Every African was assigned to a homeland and could only move if they had a pass letting them move elsewhere
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What is segregation?
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Forced to live apart
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What are sanctions?
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Actions that punish a country for behavior for which the international community doesn't approve
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What is the ANC?
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African National Congress - leg by Nelson Mandela
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Who became South Africa's first black president?
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Nelson Mandela
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What are the 2 countries that lie within South Africa?
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Swaziland
Lesotho |
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What is an enclave?
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A country completely surrounded by another country & dependent on it
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What 2 landlocked Southern African countries are dependent on South Africa?
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Malawi
Botswana |
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What is white flight?
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Departure of trained white administrators & technicians
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What 2 South African countries were Portuguese colonies?
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Angola
Mozambique |
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What type of government did Angolia and Mozambique adopt when they became independent?
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Communism
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What was the name of the Angolian rebel group supported by South Africa?
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UNITA
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What was the name of the Mozambique rebel group supported by South Africa?
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Renamo
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What is infrastructure?
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A country's basic support system - transportation, education, water etc.
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What was teh former name of Zimbabwe?
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Rhodesia
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What is a policy of land redistribution?
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Land is taken from those who have plenty and give to those who have little or none
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What is the world's poorest country?
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Mozambique
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What mineral did Zambia rely on for its wealth?
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Copper
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