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CCA Review Unit 5 Cultures in Transition

GRAPES - (Geography/Religion/Achievement/Political or government/Economy/Social systems - way of life)

  1. P) Eleven countries won their independence after World War II (1961-1966) because the European nations were weaker after the war. European countries who had used IMPERIALISM to take over weaker nationsfor their natural resources had to let go of the countries that were further away from their mother country.
  1. E) Kingdom of Ghana noticed that IF the people had access to all of the gold they wanted (taken for granted) , they would not work hard to earn it. According to the law of supply and demand, the King realized ___Supply is (high/low) Demand is (high/low) ______
  1. P/S ) Most Central American, South American, and Caribbean nations speak a Latin language (Sp), practice Catholicism (European), and celebrate Carnival (Fr) or Mardi Gras (Fr) because they were colonized by what countries?
  1. P/G) Define Imperialism and how it affected smaller weaker countries with abundant natural resources.
  1. Was it more prominent before or after WWI
  1. A/P) Mohandas Ghandi led a movement to free India from ______.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu in India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation.

  1. A/P) Ghandi, Mandela and Martin Luther King all used civil disobedience - meaning their protests were
  2. (Violent/non-violent).
  1. S/P) Define apartheid.
  1. Who is a famous African who was imprisoned for over 20 years fighting apartheid?
  1. G/E/S) Having access to ports and harbors allows a country to ______.

Compare Africa’s cities/ports and harbors to the American Colonies. (maps below)

  1. P) Define Unlimited Government and give an example:
  1. P) Define Limited Government and give an example:
  1. Kenya (safari animals) is (desert / rainforest / grasslands / near the Cape of Good Hope).
  2. Niger (salt, oasis, camel) is (desert / rainforest / grasslands / near the Cape of Good Hope).
  3. Cameroon (trees, plants, animals) is (desert / rainforest / grasslands / near the Cape of Good Hope).
  4. South Africa (aquarium/circus/Mandella)is (desert / rainforest / grasslands / near the Cape of Good Hope).
  5. Ethiopia is (coffee/Christianity/celebration) (desert / rainforest / grasslands / near the Cape of Good Hope).
  1. R) Diwali goes with what religion? (Christianity/Judaism/Confucianism/Hinduism)

Diwali is an ancient Hindu light festival celebrated in autumn or spring every year. Arguably the most important festival in Hinduism, it is an official holiday in Fiji, Guyana, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness or good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair.

  1. S) Define and write an example for: Cultural Borrowing (CB) -

Cultural Diffusion (CD) -

  1. African culture has been shared in the Caribbean and Jamaica has taken on several of their cultural traits. Is this ( CB/CD) ?

G/E/S) Define the following climates and how they relate to farming (helpful to / preventative to):

  1. Arid -
  2. Drought -
  3. Tropical -
  4. Subsistence Farming - Scarcity - growing food for you and your family’s survival
  5. Commercial Farming - Abundance - growing and selling food for a profit.

Sources: 26. If you tell a story about something you did, or you make something, it is a (primary/secondary) source.

  1. If someone else writes your story or tells your story and used/uses “your words in quotes“ to tell the story, it is a (primary/secondary) source.