essay question
- What kind of progress was made while Africa was ruled by Europeans? - law and order, schools founded, roads/railroads consturcted, hospital established and new cities were built.
- What are Africians most pressing needs today? -the gospel(75% are still in africian religions, and many others are bound by the teaching of islam.) foods and shelter(need it because its so many wars,revolutions,plagues, droughts,and famines that thousands of ppl are homeless, starving and suffering),education,(50% of africian population cant read/write) stable civil government(states are politically unstable, the threat of communist takeover for military dictatorship is constant)
African Landscape
- deserts-2/5 of Africa
- Sahara-n. Africa
- kalahari-s. Africa
- Savanna-vast tracks of and characterized by wet&dry seasons.covered by grass and shrubs.
- Mountains-atlas mt. range & Mt.Kilimanjaro
- Atlas Mountain Range-Africas longest mountain range
- Mt.Kilimanjaro-Africas tallest mountain
- Nile River-longest river
- Lake Victoria-Africas largest lake
- Great rift valley-largest rift in earths surface
- Began shortly after the...Flood
- Ebed Melech-helped prophet Jeremiah when he was cast into prison by King Zedekiah.
- Unnamed Ethiopian-most famous Cushite in world history,treasurer for Queen Candace of Cush,Philip lead this treasurer to Christ
- Eunuch-
- Edesius and Frumentius-around 300 a.d. these 2 were ship wrecked and taken to Ethiopia as slaves. Preached the gospel there. credited with bringing Christianity to Africa.
- Alexandria,EGYPT-home to clement of alexandria.(150-215)
- Cyrene, LIBYA-simmon was from here and he carried the cross for jesus
- Carthage,TUNISIA-city of early church fathers tertullin(160-230) and cyprain(200-248)
- Simon of Cyrene-caried the cross for Jesus
- Clement of Alexandria-was from alexandria,egypt.,hymn:"shepherd of tender youth" is the oldest surviving christian hymn.
- Sea trade-early as 1500 b.c.,africans were trading w/ asians . Africa gave iron,ivory,gold.Asia gave porcelain,precious stones,silk.
- Inland trade-b/t 300 and 1200 a.d.,ghana was trading w/ middle east arabs. Ghana gave gold,ivory and slaves. Middle east gave salt, copper, dried fruits.
- Mali Empire-lasted from 1200-1500 a.d.,modern day gambia,guinea,mali and seegal.
- Timbuktu-important trading center for mahli empire,famous center for learning and culture.
- Songhai Empire-dominated west asia in 1500s/monopolized trade across the sahara.
- "The White Mans Grave"-name for africa in the 19th centruy(1800s)/explorers in africa faced many obsticales:intense heat,malaria,sleeping sickness,&yellow fever.
- Mungo Park-Explored africa from 1768-1773/explored the nile river.
- Hugh Clapperton-explored africa from 1822-1824/1st european to to cross the sahara.
- Alexander Laing-explored africa from 1825-1826/first european to reach timbuktu.
- Robert Moffatt-explored africa from 1795-1883/one of the 1st missionaries to africa/he said,"I can see the smoke of a thousand villages where the name of Chirst has never been heard."
- David Livingstone-went to africa in response to moffatts call for more missionaries'1st european to see Victoria falls(largest waterfall)/worked in africa many years, then went missing/american newspaper sent a reporter,Henry Stanley, to find him.
- European Rule-by WWI(1914), only 2 african staes were independent.(Ethiopia & Liberia)
- Progress-what kind?-1st essay queation
- 1950s and 1960s-a move toward independence from European rule. began with Ghana in 1957.
- General Idi Amin-seized power in Uganda/ruled until 1979/devout muslim(killed and totured as many as 300,000 people)
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