East Africa!Chapter #23

I. Natural Environments

A. Landforms & WaterWhat has shaped the land?

Rift valleys?

Lake Victoria?

Mt. Kilimanjaro?

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Source/s of the Nile?

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B. Climates & Natural Resources

Factors that determine climate? (2)

Weather?

Tsetse fly?

Oil?

Gems?

Fertile Soil?

Scenery?

II. History & Culture

A. Early HistoryOlduvai Gorge?

Written records of history?

B. Arab Connections

Arab influence in East Africa?

Ivory?

Swahili?

Swahili

Spoken throughout the southern-half of Africa

hakuna matata = no problem or no worries

Other Swahili Examples from Disney’s “Lion King?”

Safari = journey

Kwanzaa = first or beginning

C. European Influence

Europeans in East Africa?

European colonization?

Cash crops?Sisal?

Independence of Africa?

Eritrea?Independence from

Ethiopia in 1993

D. Culture

Culture Groups? (3) Language

Arab traditions?

Traditional religion?

Other religions?

III. The Region Today

A. Economic DevelopmentGum arabic?

Developed or developing economies?

Ethiopian economy?

Highest per capita GDP?

Population?

B. Issues & Challenges

Effects of population growth?

Genocide?Rwanda—One Hundred Days of Slaughter?

Hutus and Tutsis

Somalia---Who’s in charge?!