Human%20Geography%20of%20Africa

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Human Geography of Africa

• East
• North
• West
• Central
• South

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Standards Objectives

• Analyze and assess the impact of urbanization on
  the physical human environments
• GHW 5.5
• Map the spread of innovative art forms and
  scientific thought from their origins to other
  world regions
• GHW.6.3
• Recognize the conflict and cooperation among
  groups of people occur for a variety of reasons
  including nationalist, racial, ethnic, religious,
  economic and resource concerns that generally
  involve agreements and disagreements related to
  territory on Earths surface
• GHW.7.1

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East Africa
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East Africa

• Agriculture
• Declining yields
• Cash crops
• Droughts
• Cradle of Humanity
• Arab Traders

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East Africa

• Europeans

Berlin Conference

• Portuguese 1400s
• Christianity
• Berlin Conference
• Independence in 1960s brings violence
• Rwanda Genocide
• Hutu killed Tutsi
• Ethiopia vs. Somalia

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East Africa
Cash Crops
Pandemic
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East Africa
Masai
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East Africa
Urbanization- Kenya
Physical Environment
Human Environment
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East Africa

• Culture

• Lingua Franca
• English French common languages
• Christian Muslim
• Urban vs Rural
• Quality of Health Care Education

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North Africa
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North Africa
Ancient Egypt
Pharoahs Nile River
Geometry Medicine Trade Hieroglyphics
3100 BCE- Dynasty
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North Africa

• Culture
• Islam
• Arabic
• Free Education
• Doctor Shortages

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North Africa
SOUKS
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West Africa
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West Africa

• Trading Empires

• Trade Routes
• Ghana
• Gold for Salt
• Europeans
• Slave Trade

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West Africa
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West Africa

• Urbanization
• Nigerian Independence
• Civil War due to religion ethnicity

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Central Africa
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Central Africa
Europeans enter Congo
Bantu Migrations
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Central Africa
Colonialism

• King Leopold II
• Economic Change
• Cash Crops
• Resource Extraction

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Central Africa
Darfur Arab Militia vs. Rebels
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Central Africa

• Culture

• Language
• Pidgin- simplified speech
• Religion
• Traditional Religions
• Christianity

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Southern Africa
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Southern Africa

• Independence
• Angola- coup d etat
• Zambia- resources
• Botswana- successful

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South Africa
Economic Sanctions
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African Influence
Fang Art- Picasso