Rhodesia (region)

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/rhodesia-region

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location?Southern Africa
2. What is the primary natural divider?Zambezi River
3. What was Rhodesia and where was it located?Rhodesia was a region in southern Africa that was split by the Zambezi River. The part north of the river was called Northern Rhodesia and the part south was called Southern Rhodesia.
4. Why was the region named Rhodesia?European settlers in the 1890s named the area after Cecil Rhodes, who founded the British South Africa Company. The name was used in newspapers by 1891 and officially by the company in 1895.

Colonial Administration: The governance of a territory by a foreign power, often for economic exploitation.
Unilateral Declaration of Independence: A declaration of independence made by a territory without the consent of the ruling power.
Decolonization: The process by which colonies become independent from their ruling countries.