vocab quiz

1. The second largest continent, located south of the Mediterranean Sea, east of the Atlantic Ocean, and west of the Indian Ocean is Africa

2. A meeting held in Berlin, Germany (from 1884-1885) and organized by Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of Germany, during which European countries decided how they were going to divide up Africa for colonization wich is the Berlin Conference

3. A period of time, approximately 1881-1914, during which European countries competed for control over African land and resources wich is the Scramble for Africa

4. A South African of Dutch ancestry is the Boers

5. A South African of Dutch, French, or German ancestry wich are the African Boers

6. An ethnic group in Southern Africa wich is the Khoisan

7. The process of dominating a country's political, economic, and/or cultural life wich is colonization

8. The policy of extending a country or empire's power and influence over another by taking over its land and/or government is imperialism

9. A self-autonomous territory of the British Empire that existed from 1910-1961 that was created by combining the Cape Colony with the Boer states; the region became the Republic of South Africa in 1961 is Union of South Africa

10. A widespread occurrence of a disease is epedemic