1. Unit #1, AFRICA
Unit 1 – Africa
Lesson 3 – Geography of Africa

2. Key things to remember Sahara Desert it’s a continent, NOT a country
Has 54 countries of its own!
It’s HUGE
You can fit USA and China in it
It has a lot of desert
It has a lot of rain forest
It’s mostly near the equator – so it’s WARM
Sahara
Desert
Rain
Forest

5. Africa
+ 40% Desert
~ 10% Rain Forest
That leaves ~50%
Farmable/Arable

6. AFRICA WAS ONCE HOME TO A THRIVING, WEALTHY, TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
Mansa Musa, richest man EVER
(worth $400 billion)

7. The richest people of all time:
1. Mansa Musa I, (Ruler of Malian Empire, ) $400 billion
3. John D Rockefeller (industrialist, ) $340 billion
4. Andrew Carnegie (industrialist, ) $310 billion
5. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Czar of Russia, ) $300 billion
9. Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company, ) $199 billion
10. Cornelius Vanderbilt (industrialist, ) $185 billion
12. Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft, ) $136 billion
14. John Jacob Astor (businessman, ) $121 billion
16. John of Gaunt (son of Edward III, ) $110 billion
19. Henry, Duke of Lancaster (Engl noble, ) $85.1 billion
25. Sam Walton (Walmart founder, ) $65 billion
FORMER AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS
MANSA MUSA
RICHEST MAN EVER
IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
CURRENT BUSINESSMEN RICH MEN
EUROPEAN MONARCHS

8. How rich was Mansa Musa? His wealth is 2.5% more than Bill Gates
He’s richer than the richest American ever was
He’s richer than the richest European king ever was
He’s twice as rich as the current two richest Americans COMBINED
SAY WHAT?!

9. AFRICA WAS HOME TO A THRIVING, WEALTHY, TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
Why Does This Matter?
SO WHAT HAPPENED?

10. POSSIBLE REASONS: AFRICANS HAVE SUFFERED
Invasion
Disease
Wars
Famine
Poverty

11. INVASION
Europeans arrived, took what they wanted, and left Africans to “just deal”

12. What two nations “owned” most of Africa?

13. DISEASE
The worst diseases in the world
come from Africa

14. DISEASES
Malaria
Ebola
HIV
Yellow Fever

15. About what percentage of the HiV population is in Africa?

16. Which part of Africa is most effected by HiV?

18. FAMINE
Poor crop growth is BAD in a region where people grow their own food to survive

19. What has been happening to African farmland?

20. WARS
Wars between Africans have claimed millions of lives

21. POVERTY
Africans do NOT have a thriving economy. Most depend on small gardens for the food they eat.
And the land is just not all that great for farming

23. Cartoon Analysis
What does this next cartoon imply about what caused all these problems in Africa?

25. Next slides are from your notes…

26. Climate in Africa What is the weather like in Africa?
How has this affected how Africans live?

27. Climate Zones
How do you know this is savanna?

28. Nubia Why does Nubia matter to Egypt?
How was Nubia different than Egypt?

29. Answer this one as a group:
Why do we study Nubia, ancient Egypt and other regions if none of that exists anymore?
Come up with more than one reason… be ready to discuss with the class.