SS Midterm - Africa and Guns, Germs, and Steel

what is pan africanism

african countries working together to gain independence for all of africa

what is geography

study of the earth or of people, places, and environment

study of maps/person who studies maps

cartography, cartographer

a place is considered geographically lucky if they have what?

domesticated animals to help with farming, crops that are nutritous, easy to grow, can store for a long time, can feed a large population,

problem with places that people had to farm all the time in

they would spend all their time farming and not doing other specific tasks

process used to domesticate crops that created plants that yielded bigger and tastier harvests

people handpicked seeds/crops specifically to plant (bigger ones) to feed a population more

how did animal domestication help people

dependable meat (instead of hunting), milk for protein, animal skin and fur for clothes, they can eat crop remains, animal dung is fertilizer for farming, plow was attached to animal (easier and faster farming), pigs dug/used muscle power

five examples of animals that can be domesticated and where they are found

cows, pigs, goat, horse, sheep in asia and europe