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1) Various modes of transportation, such as railroads, highways, and airplanes, have had a positive impact in how the world conducts economic activities by...
A
Lessening the importance of having water close to settlements
B
Having more access to military outposts
C
Long distance trade is no longer necessary
D
Various big companies now have to build near natural resources
2) The fast change in the political organization in Africa from the sixteenth century to the late nineteenth century is the effect of -
A
United States took over many oil fields and demanded political change
B
Africans rising up and demanding a political revolution
C
The continued attempts of Europeans to colonize and control certain areas
D
The technological upgrades to government entities by various African countries
3) What physical feature has made movement more difficult for North Africans?
A
The Sahel
B
The Nile River
C
The Sahara
D
Mt. Kilimanjaro
4) What desert is the largest in the world?
A
Kalahari
B
Mojave
C
Sahara
D
Namib
5) What do these examples have in common? 1. Family farming without electricity; 2. Natives following their ancestors way of life; 3. Family living in huts
A
Urbanized communities
B
Traditional Societies
C
Technologically advanced socities
D
Free market economies
6) An economy that is substance based, concentrates more on -
A
production of goods for personal use
B
the collection of taxes for payment of goods
C
production of goods to be sold for profit
D
production for easier access to more solvable goods
7) Two families across the world both practice substance farming because -
A
they produce agricultural products for the consumption of their own families
B
they both live in large state - owned farms
C
they are trying to make a profit and sale agricultural products to big companies
D
their families are getting government assistance
8) What does the term brain drain mean?
A
When educated Native Africans leave their countries
B
Europeans are getting AIDS faster
C
Female Africans are increasing their education in Africa's Universities
D
African natives are increasingly developing a brain disease
9) Which area has been damaged because of the drilling for oil?
A
The Niger River Delta
B
Mt. Kilimanjaro
C
The Iberian Peninsula
D
The Sahara
10) What was the reason behind the Berlin Conference?
A
To decide which European country will conquer all of Africa
B
To conquer all of the agricultural products from African
C
To divide Africa among European nations
D
To decide whether Berlin would control all of the African oil fields
11) A nation that is becoming industrialized usually has -
A
Most of the population working in the Quaternary sector
B
Most of the population is unskilled
C
Large portion of the population that still practices subsistence agriculture
D
Large portion of the population that works in manufacturing
12) Why was Ethiopia never colonized by the Europeans?
A
Ethiopia does not have any natural resources
B
Ethiopians had the latest technology anywhere in the world
C
Most of Ethiopia is on top of a plateau and it allowed them to defend themselves effectively
D
Ethiopians spoke English so they could understand the Europeans
13) The systematic mass murdering of a certain ethnic or race group is called?
A
Infestation
B
Genocide
C
Homicide
D
Autocracy
14) The Bantu spread their language throughout Africa. This could be an example of?
A
Genocide
B
Brain Drain
C
Diffusion
D
Smear
15) Why did the political organization change so much from 1500's to the 1900's?
A
Technology changed how Africa's governments traded
B
African native governments were mostly agricultural
C
Increased weather change moved the political organizations
D
European colonialism of Africa
16) What natural resource is famously known for funding civil wars in Africa?
A
Diamonds
B
Gold
C
Wood
D
Coal
17) What do these four places have in common? Deserts - Rain forests - Siberia - North Canada
A
They are all sparsely populated
B
They are all in Europe
C
They are all in the Eastern Hemisphere
D
They are all found in the Western Hemesphere
18) What two resources were the most important funding for the trading empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai?
A
Salt and Gold
B
Blood and Diamonds
C
Gold and Diamonds
D
Salt and Silver
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