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Africa South of the Sahara Today
Critical Thinking Skills Activity
Sequencing
Learning the Skill
A sequence of events is the order in which the events take place.
Putting things in their proper sequence sometimes helps you see
cause-and-effect relationships, or how one event causes another. A
writer who describes a process, such as the eruption of a volcano,
presents the steps in a logical sequence. Knowing the order in which
things happen helps you understand the process better.
Follow these steps to help you sequence events:
• Look for dates or clue words that provide you with a chronological order-the order in which events occurred. For example, these
may be clue words: in 2025, the late 1990s, first, then, finally, after
World War II, and so on.
• Pay special attention to transitional words in order to follow the
time sequence.
(I Practicing the Skill
Directions: Read the information below. Then number the events that
follow in the order in which they occurred.
Although most countries in northern and
central Africa achieved independence by the
early 1960s, it took much longer for southern
African colonies to become independent.
Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana, Swaziland,
Zambia, and Lesotho all achieved independence by the end of the 1960s. But Angola
and Mozambique had to wait until 1975.
Zimbabwe achieved majority rule in 1980.
Namibia shook off South African domination in 1990. It was not until 1994, however,
that South Africa itself achieved majority rule
when blacks were allowed to vote for the
first time.
_ _ South Africa achieved majority rule.
_ _ Botswana achieved independence.
_ _ Zimbabwe achieved majority rule.
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Critical Thinking Skills Activity
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( / Applying the Skill
Directions: Read the passage below about the history of Limpopo
Transfrontier Park. Then fill in the time line that follows with four
sequential events from the passage.
Kruger National Park was the largest
national park in South Africa. It was located
in Northern Province and Mpumalanga Province, west of the Lebombo Mountains on the
Mozambique border. Established in part in
1898, the park was named for Paul Kruger in
1926. Kruger was the former president of the
South African Republic (or the Transvaal) and
founder of the Afrikaner nation. The headquarters of the park was at Skukuza. The park,
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with an area of 7,523 square miles (19,485 sq.
km), was about 200 miles (320 km) long and
25 to 50 miles (40 to 80 km) wide. In 2002
Kruger National Park was combined with
Mozambique's Limpopo Park and Zimbabwe's
Gonarezhou National Park to form the
Limpopo Transfrontier Park, the largest
game park in Africa. The new park opened
to visitors in early 2003.
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