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Africa Studys Flashcards

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Animism

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The belief in a super natural power that organizes and animates the material universe.

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Apartheid

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Was a system of racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991

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Bushmeat

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Meat of African wild animals

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Cash crop

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Crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

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Colony

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Country under the full partial political control of another country

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Great Rift Valley

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Formed by crash of continental plates. Approximately 6,00 kilometers in length.

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Great scramble for Africa

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Was the occupation, division and colonization of African territory by European powers between the periods of 1881 and 1914

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Great zimbabwea

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Ruined city

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Griot

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Member of a class of traveling poets

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Indigenous

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Natives to a certain place

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Slam

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Religion in which people believe and Allah and read Qua’ran

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Malaria

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Disease caused by plasmodium parasites. Transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.

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Masai

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Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania

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Matrilineal society

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Group adhering to a kingship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal.

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Non renewable resource

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Oil coal and natural gas

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Renewable resources

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Fresh water, solar energy, biomass, wood, and paper.

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Safari

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An exploration through Africa

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Subsistence crop

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Self sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed him and his family.

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Transatlantic slave trade

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Took place across the Atlantic from the 15th to the 19th century

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Urbanization

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The process of making an area more urban.

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