) 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.

Revise each of the following sentences for parallel structure.

    The best music is loud, fun, and you can dance to it.
    Tomorrow afternoon I will shop for groceries, eat lunch with my brother, and be running all sorts of errands.
    That book we read for class was really long, wordy, and didn’t make any sense.

First what is parallel structure (review):

1.) The best music is loud, fun, and groovy.

2.) Tomorrow afternoon I will shop for groceries, eat lunch with my brother, and run all sorts of errands.

3.)the book we read for class didn't make any sense; it was really long and very wordy. 

The Collective Subconscious

The collective subconscious is, theoretically, an invisible energy source much like electricity or electromagnetic waves. Jesus called it “the holy spirit”, Lucas Arts called it the force, it could be responsible for the drive that caused uncivilized humans all over the world to begin developing languages and communication at around the same time. Like dark matter, we can’t see the Collective Subconscious with our eyes, nor do we have the scientific equipment to detect it; but we can see the effects it’s had on civilizations for thousands of years.

A thriving city like Rome wasn’t built in a day, and their people didn’t just happen to all be so ahead of their time that they were able to revolutionize religion, government, philosophy and everything else they achieved. Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla had the same potential any one else in their era had, so why them? Drive, intuition, motivation, whatever you call it, it all comes back to inspiration and the Collective Subconscious, and it does not discriminate. The more in tune you are with the ideas of connection and the spiritual mind, the higher the chance you’ll get that inspiration and drive to follow through with the potential to do almost anything, including revolutionizing the world and how we perceive all we see.

theres this idea, where the connections we share between one another; as well as with the environment come together without us even being aware that its happening. this idea is as vast as the galaxies and has the potential to drive us towards mutual connections and thoughts subconsciously, as if we were having a conversation between from one brain to another with no words, or any kind of interaction at all.
this idea is known as, "the Collective Subconscious"

Chapter 18 Section 2

Climate and vegetation
pg.420

I) A Warm Continent
Africa almost completely lies between the tropic of cancer and the tropic od capricorn

A)The Deserts
-Kalahari and Namib
-Sahara lies in north africa and is the largest in the world
     a)3,000x12000 miles
-temperatures rise above 130 degrees in the summer
-in winter temperatures fall below freezing
-  20% of the Sahara consist of sand
-travel is risky because of extrme conditions
-6000 feet under dry land lies aquifers
-an oasis is an aquifer that's breached the sand 

B)The Tropics
-africa has the largest tropical area of any continant
-a town in ethiopia holds the record for highest average annual temperature of 93.9 degrees f
-night and day difference tend to be larger than seasional differences

II)Sunshine and Rainfall
pg. 421

-rainfall is matter of extremeity

A)Rainfall Patterns
-rain forests in central africa recieve the most rainfall
-africas tropical ssavanna stretches through the middle of the continant
-the closer an area is to the equator, the more rain it receives
-the closer an area is to the desert, the longer its dry season
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B) Africas Moderate areas
-mediterranean climate exists on the northern and southern tips of the continant
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III) A Grassy Continant
pg.422

-africas vegetation almost mirrors its climate

A)TRopical Grasslands
-Grassland covers most of the continant
-Serengeti plain in northen tanzania
-some of the grass can grow taller than the average human
-abundance of grass makes serengetti ideal for grazing animals
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IV)Africas Extremes
pg.422

A)Rain Forests
-Major rainforest in africa sits on the congo basin
-600+ trees are found there
-home to hundreds of bird species
-massive plants and trees block out the sunlught
-the air underneath the vegation is hot and moist
-vegatation decays quickly
-most animals live in the canopy
-the canopy refers to the uppermost layer of branches
-large numbers of snakes, birds, and foxes live here
-Slash and burn agriculture is killing the forest

VI) Varieties of Plantlife
-North africa contains sizable oak
-Mangrove trees of west africa
-they help build up dry land by hoding silt
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Summery
Africa has many diverse vegatation and a warm climate. there are large desserts and tropical forests, as well as thousands of different species that live there 

Africa Assessment questions

1, Places and terms
-basis are found around the Plateau
-egypt
-east africa
-tanzania
-southern Africa

2, Taking notes
Africa has very distinctive landforms that vary from the volcanic mountains of Kilimanjaro to the rift vally and tropical rainforests.

africa has plentiful resources of oil and minerals
including gold and plutonium

3,
a - because a large plateau covers most of Africa
b - mountains, rift valley, fresh water lakes, tropical rainforests
c - because Africas people lack the industrial growth to prosper 

CHapter 18 Section 1
I) a Vast Plateau  pg.415
-africas shape is a result of Pangea

A) Africa's Plataea
-a huge plateau  
-most of the plateau lies at least 1,000 above sea level
-africa is the worlds second largest continant
-the platue is its most prominant feature

B)Basins and Rivers
-several basins are found throughout this plataeu
-each basin spans more than 625x5000
-WAter collects in the chad basin and flows through the sudan, congo, and djouf basins
-the worlds largest river, the Nile, is located in egypt
-water has provided irrigation for thousands of years
-95+% of egyptions rely geavily on the river
-its pop densisty is roughly 3,320 people per square mile
-africas rivers contain many waterfalls, rivers, and gorges
-congo river is 2,900 miles long
-series of 32 caracts make some places impassible

II)Distinctive African Landforms pg.416
-Africas valleys and lakes add to the continents varied landscape

A)Rift Valleys and Lakes
-Most distinctive landforms are in east africa
-huge cracks appeared in the earth due to continental plates drifting apart
-the land sank to form "Rift Valleys"
-Rift Valleys stretch over 4,000 miles from Jordan to Southwest Asia
-lake Tanganyika is the longest freshwater lake in the world and stretches 420x4,7000
-africas largest lake is lake Victoria, which is the wolrds second longest freshwater lake, but is only 270 feet deep

B)Mountains
-Mainly Volcaninc
-mount Kilimanjaro is africas highest mountain and is also volcanic
-volcanic activity created the Ethiopeon Highlands
-an Escarpment is a steep slope with a nearly flat plataeu on the top

III)Africas Wealth of Resources pg.417
-africas resources are both stories of scarce and plenty
africa has a huge amount of resources, but the people lack the industrial base and money to develope them

a)A wealth of minerals
-one of the worlds richest continents in terms of sourcess
-large amounts of plutonium, gold, chromium, cobalt, copper, phosphates, diamonds, etc
-south africa is th ewolrds largest source of chrommium
-south africa produces nearly 80% of the worlds platonium
-30% of the worlds gold reserves
-produce about 50% of the worlds cobalt, mostly in the congo
-ores and minerals acount for over half of africas exports
-however, this has not granted economic prosparity for africas people

B)OIL Resources
-Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, and Angola are Africas leading pertroleum producers
-they combine to produce about a tenth of the worlds oil
-American oil componys pay Angola a fee for drilling rights and oil

IV)Diversity of Resources pg.418

A)Major Commodities
-coffee is the second most profitable commodotie in africa 
-lumber is another large Commodity
-every year loggers clear twice the size of new joursys worth of lumber


Summery
Africa is very large and has Diverse geogrophy, including the worlds largest fresh water lakes.
Africa has lots of Resources, but lack the means of developing them

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