Friday, April 17, 2015

Main Ideas

East Africa

1. It is located on the Red Sea and Indian Ocean making it an important trading center and contributed to it's expansion and power.

2. Almost 90% of the African continent came under the control of Europeans. Only Liberia and Ethiopia remained free. Africans lost their independence. They were treated as inferiors and were forced to work as slaves for long hours.

North Africa 

3. Because invaders from Asia brought their religion and culture.

4. They have changed from primarily house wives to having more freedoms and equal incomes compared to men.

West Africa

5. Their similarities were that they thrived because of locations on trade routes, trading salt and gold. Their differences were that Ghana was rich from traders taxes and Mali conquered Ghana brining back salt and gold trade.

6. Civil war, uneducated population, shortages of workers, and poor roads and transportation. 

Central Africa

7. Because the produced a great diversity of cultures but also liked various barts of the continent.

8. Some education problems include a shortage of trained teachers, high dropout rate and a shortage of secondary schools. 

Southern Africa

9. It helped them become a salt and gold trading area as well as diamond producers, this provided a richer population.

10. He fought for black rights and he became imprisoned, nations around the world pressured South Africa to let him be released.

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