Chapter 24 Homework Southern Africa
Name ______
12 Point Option
Section 1: Physical Geography
1. Kha//'an lives in what country?
2. Describe Kha//'an's house.
3. What do the authors tell us about Kha//'an's parents?
4. During the school week, Kha//'an lives someplace other than his home. Where does he live?
5. What is the big island country off the east coast of Africa?
6. Much of the northern portion of this region is covered by two deserts. Name both of these deserts.
Section 2: Southern Africa’s History and Culture
7. What European group started a colony on the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to help supply their ships on their long journey from Europe to Asia.
8. The White descendants of this European group that colonized the cape became known by what term?
9. When White European colonists intermarried with the native African people, they created a mix-race. What term is used for this mix-raced group?
10. Why were so many elephants slaughtered in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Section 3: South Africa Today
11. South Africa was run by White settlers for many years. They set up a system that was not liked by many countries in the world. It was called Apartheid. What was Apartheid?
12. South Africa was divided up into three groups. Which of the three groups in South Africa owned all the good farmland, mines, and natural resources?
13. What were living conditions like for the Black African people of South Africa?
14. What happened to you if you protested against Apartheid in South Africa?
15. One of the great people in world history during our lifetime is Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela was sent to prison in South Africa for 26 years. What was his terrible crime?
16. What eventually happened to Nelson Mandela in 1994?
17. Now in South Africa both Black Africans and Whites have equal rights, but which group is still much poorer and not given the same economic opportunities?
18. Look at the chart on page 527 and compare it to the charts on pages 512 and 513. How does South Africa compare to other countries in Africa in terms of wealth?
19. How does South African compare to the United States in terms of wealth?
Section 4: The Other Southern African Countries
20. Look at the chart, how would you describe the life expectancies of the African countries in this section?
21. Most people in Madagascar are what kind of farmers?
22. Give an example of an animal found only in Madagascar.
16 Point Option
Section 1: Physical Geography
23. Lesotho and Swaziland are enclaves. What is an enclave?
24. Kruger National Park is a huge national park in southern Africa. Name three animals that are common there in the wild.
25. Southern Africa has a lot of mineral resources. Name three main mineral resources from this region.
Section 2: Southern Africa’s History and Culture
26. What is different about Madagascar's history as compared with the rest of Africa?
27. In the 1700s and the 1800s, Mozambique became a major area of what kind of trade?
28. Eventually, the descendants of the original European colonists to southern Africa were called Boers. They soon faced a problem. The British arrived in the 1800s. Many of the Boers (White descendants) decided they didn't want to be any part of the British empire, so they moved further inland into Africa. Eventually they ran into a powerful African tribe which created more problems for them. What was this powerful African tribe?
29. What eventually happens to this powerful tribe?
30. What two valuable minerals were found in Africa causing more British to move into the area?
31. This rush of British in the area created more problems for the Boers (White descendants) Eventually the Boers fight a three year war against the British called the Boer War. Who won this war?
32. What happened to all of the Boer territory after this war?
Section 3: South Africa Today
33. Why was the African National Congress (ANC) formed?
34. What other South African leader besides Nelson Mandela led the movement against Apartheid by trying to get people to use peaceful forms of protest against Apartheid.
35. South Africa has some big problems to face. One is that crime is on the rise. The other is how to handle an epidemic. What disease is raging out of control in South Africa?
Section 4: The Other Southern African Countries
36. The country of Namibia is an African country, but their culture does have traces of an European group. What European country greatly influenced Namibia’s culture?
37. Name three animals common in the Okavango Basin in Botswana.
38. What disease is causing a huge epidemic in Zimbabwe?
39. Madagascar used to be a colony of what European country?
20 Point Option
Section 1: Physical Geography
40. The Drakensberg Mountain range are in the eastern part of this region. Moist air off the Indian Ocean is forced up and over the Drakensberg range. On the east side, the side the air is rising, low pressure results and they get a lot of rain. On the west side, the side the air is dropping, high pressure results and they get hardly any rain. The picture on the bottom of this page must have been taken on what side of the Drakensberg Mountain Range?
Section 2: Southern Africa’s History and Culture
41. About 1500 - 2000 years ago, groups of people from Central Africa began moving into the southern Africa region. What kind of language did these people speak?
42. By 1000 AD, one of these Bantu speaking groups became quite powerful and created an empire across the southern part of Africa. What was the name of this great African empire?
43. This group of people built towns surrounded by stone walls. What were these towns called?
44. Can you name something else that has this same name?
45. How do we know that the Shona must have been able to trade with people as far away as China?
Section 3: South Africa Today
46. Many countries around the world protested South Africa’s use of Apartheid. These countries imposed sanctions (penalties) on South Africa. Give two examples of sanctions other countries used against South Africa.
Section 4: The Other Southern African Countries
47. Botswana was described as a success story by our authors. What besides its large amount of natural resources has allowed Botswana to get into good shape economically?
48. Name three main economic activities of Botswana.
49. What is strange about how much land Whites own in Zimbabwe?
50. The current borders of Africa were drawn in the 1800s. Who created the current African borders?
51. Why weren’t Africans the ones who created the borders?
52. Two of the problems that were created by the way the borders were drawn had to do with how ethnic groups in the African nations ended up in the new countries. What were the two problems with the borders and ethnic groups? Many problems in Africa today are because of the way the borders were drawn.
53. Why are there animals in Madagascar that you don’t find anywhere else in the world?