Vegetation region

Location

                 Crops

Raised

 

 

Indigenous

Imported

Mediterranean

 

 

 

Desert

 

 

 

Savanna

 

 

 

Forest

 

 

 

 

“How Africa became Black”

 

Dramatic population migrations: from where to where

 

Evidence of past distributions of people within central and southern Africa

 

Distribution of subsistence technologies: foraging, farming, herding

 

 

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Ch. 2  comparative size of continent of Africa

Basic geological characteristics of the continent

General location of Rift Valley

Humus, leach, shifting cultivation

Location of major mineral resources

Major diseases

 

 

Ch. 4

Tonal languages

Basic facts of language diversity in Africa

Lingua francas

Subsistence areas

 

Ch. 12

Changes over time in the Sahara

Development and spread of agriculture, crops imported

Importance of the camel

Coming of the Iron Age

Expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples

 

Ch. 13

Intercommunicating zone

Distribution of Christianity and Islam

Contact of Africa with other world areas

 

Ch. 14

Names of some of the major states

 

Ch. 15

Reasons for slavery in Africa

Reasons for the slave trade

Where the slaves were sent

Impact of the slave trade

 

Ch. 18

Reasons for the European desire for colonies

Which areas were colonized by which European country

 

Ch. 19

Basic philosophies of colonial rule

Indirect and direct rule