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Genocide

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A deliberate attempt to kill specific national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups of people

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Eugenics

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Positive breeding of people regarded as superior; negative breeding (limitations on) people regarded as inferior

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Prejudice

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A fixed opinion formed without knowing the facts

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Racist

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Discrimination against people because of race

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Pseudo

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Fake, artificial, imitation

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Valid

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True

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Social sciences

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The study of human societies and behavior

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Classified

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Ordered, sorted, organized into categories

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Evolution

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The development of plants and animals from earlier, simpler forms

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Hierarchy

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A ranked order, with the best in top place

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Orang-utan

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A large ape found in Borneo or Sumatra (the Indonesian islands)

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Sinister

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Disturbing, threatening, evil

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Genes

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The parts of cells which control the characteristics we inherit from our parents

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Eugenicists

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People who promoted the ideas of Eugenics

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Sterilization

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Surgery which makes it impossible to have children

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Voluntary

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Choosing to do something, not being forced t

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Taint

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To spoil or degrade

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Fitter

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Positively adapted to as to leads a productive and happy life

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Genetics

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The scientific study of hereditary

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Hereditary

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Inheritance of physical or mental characteristics from parents or ancestors

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Hunter-gatherers

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People who live by hunting animals and collecting roots, fruits and berries

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Penal colony

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A place where people convicted of crimes were sent

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Poaching

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Stealing or hunting game on someone else’s land

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Dominion

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A colony with the right to elect its own government

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Guerrilla warfare

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Fighting in small groups using hit-and-run tactics

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Deliberate

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Done on purpose

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Neutral

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Balanced, not taking sides

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Bias

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Supporting or favoring one side

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Relic

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Something that remains from an earlier era

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Superintendent

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The official in charge

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Confiscate

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Remove, size, take away

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Dictation

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Writing down what someone is saying while they speak

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Maternity allowances

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An amount of money paid regularly to pregnant women

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Immigrants

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People who are coming into a country, to live there

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Emigrants

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People who are leaving a country

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Institutions

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Children homes or orphanages

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Benefactor

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A person who ives money or other help

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Activists

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People who work to bring about political or social change

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Agterryers

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Afrikaans word literally meaning ‘after rider’

those who follow afterwards; it referred to black people who performed supporting roles for the Boers in the war

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Ambush

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Attack from a hidden position

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Anglicise

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Make english

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Annex

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Take over a piece of land and add it to your own territory

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Apparatus

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A system or orginisation to achieve a particular goal

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Artifacts

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Things made by people

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Artillery

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Big field guns firing shells

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Barbarism

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The state of being uncivilized

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Besieged

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Surrounded in order to starve the other side of supplies on so force it into giving up

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Bittereinde

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Afrikaans term for someone fighting to the ‘bitter end’

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Burghers

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Citizens of the South African Republic

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Capital

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Money needed to produce more money

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Civilian

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Not a soldier

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Colonial Secretary

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British minister in charge of the colonies

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Color bar

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Skilled jobs were to be reserved for whites only; unskilled work was to be done only be people of color

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Color curfew

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Regulations forcing colored peopel to stay indoors at urban areas at certain times

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Commando

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A small group of Boer soldiers practicing Guerrilla tactics

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Compromise

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A meeting in the middle, all side giving up something for the agreement

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Conventional warfare

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Warfare fought between two opposing sides using regular armies and tactics

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Convoy

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A number of vehicles traveling together for safety

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Defiance

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Refusing to accept the authority of others; resistance

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Deployment

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Use; especially in battle

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Depot

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Store of goods

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Dominion

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A self-governing part of the British empire

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En-route

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On the way3e

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Enlisted

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Officially enrolled in the army

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Extermination

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Wiping out

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Federation

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Different regions loosely bound together as a country

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Guerrilla warfare

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Hit and run tactics

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Hensoppers

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Afrikaans word for those who were prepared to give up and surrender to the British

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Hostility

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Negative feeling; enmity

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Incentive

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Motivator; encouragement

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Infrastructure

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Supporting facilities that help the economy to develop, e.g. roads and railway lines

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Joiners

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Those who were prepared to help the British in the fight against their fellow Boers

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Labor tenants

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Those who pay rent by working for a certain number of days a month for the landlord

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Malnutrition

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Not getting enough of the right foods

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Means of production

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Everything needed to manufacture something e.g. land and factories

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National convention

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A meeting of representatives of all the major South African colonies to negotiate Union

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Reconciliation

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Making peace; becoming friendly

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Resilience

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Being able to recover easily

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Revenues

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Money earned

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Share-croppers

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Those who pay rent by giving the farmer an agreed share of their crop

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Soil erosion

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Wearing away or washing away of the soil

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Strategy

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Long term plan to achieve a goal

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Supremacy

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Most important status

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Territorial segregation

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Dividing the whole country into white and black areas

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Uitlanders

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Afrikaans word for foreigners, especially those who flocked too Transvaal after the discovery of gold

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Undesirables

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Unwanted people

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