On Friday we will discuss and decide what essay questions will be on the midterm exam. In your own best interest, please give it some thought ahead of time.
Reading Questions for AFRICANS, Chapter 8:
- Northern Africa: What was the chief reason for demographic stagnation?
- How did Muhammed Ali change Egypt? What did the British do about it?
- What did a strong Egypt mean for the Sudan?
- What was notable about Ethiopia in this period?
- Why did the French invade Algeria? What were the initial effects of the conquest?
- How did attempts to modernize effect Tunisia and Morocco?
- The West African Savanna: This was a period of political fragmentation but huge growth in what?
- What was the most important event in nineteenth-century West Africa?
- Why was the Sokoto Caliphate able to endure?
- What made Hausaland the most prosperous region in tropical Africa?
- How did slavery there contrast with South African estate slavery?
- Southern Africa: Who created a large Zulu kingdom, and how did he do it?
- In contrast, how did the Sotho-Tswana people overcome segmentation? How did they resist white aggression?
- How was the Lesotho kingdom created?
- Why did the Britain introduce 5000 British settlers into the Eastern Cape in 1820?
- What was the "Great Trek"?
- What is "Cape liberalism"?
- How did the Africans view missionaries? What about the Zulu king?
- What may have aided growth in South Africa?
- How did the discovery of diamonds change the political situation?
- Eastern Africa: What role did the Oman play in East Africa and what effect did it have on Swahili culture?
- What were the main imports and exports, and how were they transported?
- Why did Livingstone say that eastern Africa was the open sore of the world?
- What beneficial effects did long-distance trade have?
- What was most responsible for population decline?
- What was the context for the ensuing colonial rule of Africa?
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