1. Reading: Page 7 Worksheet: 4
Africa
Reading: Page 7
Worksheet: 4

2. The period in history when Europeans went in search of other lands:
The Age of Exploration

3. Every place the Europeans went they were interested in:
Trading, conquering lands, and taking natural resources (God / Glory / Gold)

4. The Europeans discovered the coasts of Africa
did not have safe harbors

5. The most common way for explorers to get to the interior of an area:
was to use rivers

6. The often had trouble getting to the interior of Africa because:
Africa had poor rivers and a bad climate

7. The Africans often attacked and killed exploring parties

8. Vasco da Gama
Found a passage around the African coast

9. “The New World”
North and South America

10. One thing the Europeans were searching for in Africa: slaves

11. Taking slaves from Africa was different than ever before in history because:
The great number of people taken as slaves
The cruel way they were captured and treated

12. About 50 million people were taken as slaves

13. Black Africans wanted revenge against each other for catching slaves
(none of the tribes trusted each other any more)

14. Blacks helping to catch blacks led to distrust among the tribes

15. Slavery came to an end: in the mid to late 1800’s (1865?)

16. Reading: Page 9 Worksheet: 5
Africa
Reading: Page 9
Worksheet: 5

17. Most of Africa had been explored by: the late 1800’s

18. The Europeans set up colonies in Africa

19. The colonies sent natural resources to the: mother country

20. Lumber is an example of a raw material that comes from natural resource of trees

21. England made textiles (cloth) which was sent back to Africa to be purchased by the Africans

22. The “carving up” of Africa meant Africa was divided up among
European countries

23. The period when European countries ruled Africa:
Colonialism

24. New ideas brought to Africa by scientists and inventors:
Technology

25. The southern third of Africa: South Africa

26. Johannesburg has a lot of:
mines, steel mills, blast furnaces, and gold

27. What makes it a “rich” area:
Gold, copper, coal, asbestos, platinum, and good farmland

28. The people who settled this area were Dutch farmers who were called:
Boers

29. The Dutch treated the blacks as slaves

30. The Dutch also had trouble getting along with: England

31. The Boers were forced to move to another part of South Africa.
This move was called “The Great Trek”

32. In the Boer War:
The English fought the Dutch

33. England won the war and called the new government:
The Union of South Africa

34. The descendants of the Boers called themselves: Afrikaners

35. This group became:
the largest group of white people in Africa

36. The fear of the Afrikaners:
That blacks may one day try to take back control of Africa

37. The complete separation of blacks and whites is called:
Apartheid (segregation)

38. Refusing to trade is called: a boycott

39. F.W. de Klerk is the South African president who began to take steps to end apartheid

40. Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994

41. Reading: Page 13 Worksheet: 6
Africa
Reading: Page 13
Worksheet: 6

42. In sub-Sahara the clans formed: tribes

52. The tribes knew very little about: modern farming methods

53. As Africa is becoming more modern:
strong ties holding the tribes together are falling apart

54. The younger people moving to the cities often have a hard time finding work:
they have no education or training

55. The taking of more than one wife: Polygamy

56. The gift the man gives to the father of his new wife:
dowry or bride wealth

57. Marry tribal girls marry at the age of 13 or 14

58. The males wait longer so they have time to make the dowry / bride wealth

59. Women do not mind the men having more than one wife:
because then they
can get more help
with the work they
have to do

60. If a tribal women is not treated right by her husband:
she can return
to her family

61. North Africa is located close to Europe

62. The African area which first had contact with Europeans: North Africans

63. Most of the farming in North Africa: near the Mediterranean Sea

64. Most North Africans: Muslims

65. The Islamic God: Allah

66. Islamic holy city: Mecca

67. Muslims give almost no rights or freedoms to: women

68. The North African desert travelers are the : Bedouins