) What were some early civilizations in East Africa?  Why were these civilizations important?

-the masai and the kikuyu

they are the two largest

2) What happened at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?

Eu leaders sat down and decided how they were going to steal africas land

3) What African countries managed to remain free of European control?

Ethiopia and Liberia

4) How did colonialism cause conflicts in East Africa after independence?

British rule hadent prepared Africans for freedom

5) How did Ethiopia manage to defeat Italy in 1896?

6) What are some cash crops of East Africa?

Coffee and sugar

7) What is East Africa's most critical health-care problem.

Aids and hiv

8) Research the Rwanda massacre (genocide?) and briefly discuss what happened and why.

War between the hutu and the tutsi. Hutu went about slaughtering and raping all titsu after one of their planes were shot down.