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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