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Africa Online Regional Exploration
Directions: Go to the following website - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/index.html. Click on “Explore the Regions with a Map Tool.” This website will provide you with information about four different regions in Africa. Use the information on this website to answer the following questions.
I. Ethiopia Highlands
Click on “Overview” to answer
1. Why is this region called the “cradle of humanity?”
2. What are some problems that this region is facing?
Click on “The People” to answer
3. Click on Gurage - then Customs - Why is the Ensete a good crop for these people?
4. Click on Traditions, then Ethiopian Cross - What traditions come together to create the “Ethiopian Cross?”
Click on “Eco Info”
5. Click on Rainfall - Where does most of the rain fall in Ethiopia?
6. Click on Eco Alert - Why is erosion so bad in Ethiopia?
Click on Explore the Regions in the Top Right Corner to return to the main page
II. Savanna
Click on “Overview” to answer
7. How is the Serengeti Plain different than the other “Great Plain” areas in Africa?
8. What is the key to the Serengeti’s survival? What’s affecting this survival?
Click on “The People”
9. Click on Kikuyu, then history - Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
10. Click on Religions - Although they have mostly converted to Christianity, how do the Kikuyu keep their traditional beliefs alive today?
Click on “Eco Info”
11. Click on Rainfall - What causes the wildebeest to migrate?
12. Click on Eco Alert - What is Rinderpest?
Click on Explore the Regions in the Top Right Corner to return to the main page
III. Swahili Coast
Click on “Overview”
13. How did the Indian Ocean’s monsoons affect this area?
14. What European country arrived here first?
Click on “The People”
15. Click on History - What languages mixed to form the Swahili language?
16. Click on Religion - How does Islam affect people’s lives in this region?
Click on “Eco Info”
17. Click on Animals - Why is there not a lot of animal life on the Swahili Coast?
18. Click on Eco Alert - What is wrong with the soil of the Swahili Coast?
Click on Explore the Regions in the Top Right Corner to return to the main page
IV. Rainforests
Click on “Overview”
19. What happened in the Belgian Congo in the late 19th century?
20. What are the two needs that affect the governments of the rainforest countries?
Click on “The People”
21. Why are the Baka sometimes called “pygmies?”
22. Click on Customs - What is the most prestigious occupation for the Banta?
V. The Great Lakes
Click on “The People”
23. Click on Meet the Tutsi, then History - Why did the Belgian government put the Tutsi’s in power?
24. Click on Meet the Hutu, then History - Why did the Hutu’s attack the Tutsi’s after independence from Belgium?