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What are rifts?
Rifts are long, deep valleys with mountains or plateaus on either side.
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Eastern Africa has many mountains, but the tallest one is...?
Mount Kilimanjaro
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Plains along the eastern rift in what are home to many national parks?
Tanzania and Kenya
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Water from Lake Victoria is the source of the ________. Waters from Ethiopia's highlands form the ________. These two rivers meet in Khartoum, _______ to create the mighty _______.
White Nile, Blue Nile, Sudan, Nile River
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What is Africa's largest lake in area?
 - Lake Victoria!
It is very shallow though :D
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Some lakes in Africa people can't swim in, what is the reason for this?
They are too hot
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Northern Sudan and the northeastern coast have what two climates?
Steppe and desert
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East Africa has a what climate?
Tropical savanna climate! :D
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Most East Africans are of what occupancy?
Cattle herders or farmers.
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Define colonialism
When someone sends people out to a distant territory to take over their economy and politics.
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What was the Berlin Conference?
It was when a group of european powers came together in 1884 to make guidelines to regulate African trade and areas that would be colonized for their own economical and political benefit.
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Why did European countries want to colonize Africa? Name 4 or 5 reasons.
For raw materials, cheap labor, Suez Canal, it was a place to invest there money, for new and more markets so they could get more money.
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When did the Europeans begin to colonize Africa?
In the late 1800s
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King Leopold the second and Henry Stanley set up the Democratic Republic of the Congo when?
In 1876
They set it up, but the numbers go down :) haha
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Africa was mostly under European control when?
In 1902
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African countries gained independance from Europeans when?
In the 1960s
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Why did missionaries want Africa to be colonized?
So that Africans would transfer to Christianity
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What increases possible conflict between Europeans and Africans?
Their borders are so close together
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When Europeans colonized Africa, what advantage did the Europens have?
Technological, especially with machine guns.
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Africa as what bad thing?
diseases
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