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36 Cards in this Set
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Escarpment? |
a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights |
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Desertification? |
the expansion of desert into plains or grasslands |
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Sahel? |
semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to The Sudan. It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara (desert) to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south. |
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Diaspora? |
refers to the communities throughout the world that are descended from the historic movement of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, among other areas around the globe |
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Subsistence Farming? |
growing enough food for your family with very little left for profit |
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Brain Drain? |
the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country |
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Eugenics? |
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics |
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Infrastructure? |
the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise |
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Infectious? |
spreading diseases |
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immigration and Emigration? |
I-coming INTO the country E-EXITING out of the country |
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Boycott? |
withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest |
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Microlending? |
the lending of small amounts of money at low interest to new businesses in the developing world |
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What bodies of water border Africa? |
North and South of the Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Mozambique Channel, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Gulf of Guinea |
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8 Stages of Genocide? |
1-Classification 2-Symbolization 3-Dehumanization 4-Organization 5-Polarization 6-Preparation 7-Extermination 8-Denial |
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What 2 countries were not colonized in Africa during the scramble for Africa? |
Liberia and Ethiopia |
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Colonialism and Imperialism? |
gaining political control of a country by a foreign area or people |
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Berlin Conference? |
how the europeans wanted to split up the continent of africa |
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Name the good of colonialism. |
Good - built schools, built modern cities, improved some infrastructure, improved medical care, began limited industries, introduced a lingua franca, and provided a written language and recorded history |
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Name the bad of colonialism. |
Bad - purposely kept underdeveloped (to control them), discouraged formal education for natives, suppressed African rights-natives has no rights, no experience with gov.=dictatorships & political instability, Professional armies=civil war, instability, conflict, Native culture condemned as "uncivilized" |
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What is the dominate religion in north and south Africa? |
N - Islam S - Christianity |
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Why is Africa called "The Dark Continent"? |
Because it is not completely discovered. |
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What is a pandemic and how can it affect Africa? |
it is a disease spread like HIV or AIDS |
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What best explains Africa's diverse climate? |
90% TROPICS (from upper Africa to lower) desert savanna rainforest savanna desert |
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Apartheid? |
when south Africa had "segregation" |
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Nelson Mandela? |
he tried to create rights for the black citizens of south africa and spent 27 years in prison and when he got out, he became president of south africa. made the africans get rights in 1994 |
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How does civil war affect countries? |
it completely ruins the countries that have civil wars. (the us is still recovering from ours) |
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GENOCIDE: classification? |
distinguished by nationality, ethnicity, race or religion |
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GENOCIDE: symbolization? |
names, languages, type of dress, uniforms, IDs |
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GENOCIDE: dehumanization? |
group that denies humanity of another group, and makes the victim group seem subhuman, hate propaganda, superiority, and inferiority; it justifies murder as "ethnic cleansing" or "purification" |
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GENOCIDE: organization? |
a group crime, must be organized |
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GENOCIDE: polarization? |
extremists drive groups apart, hate groups and propaganda, forbidden intermarriage or interaction with others |
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GENOCIDE: preparation? |
symbols (have to wear if part of victim group) death lists, separated from ethnicity or religion, segregation is imposed, victims forced to concentration camps. |
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GENOCIDE: extermination? |
started with genocide, committed by gov. Killing is "extermination" to killers, they think they are "cleansing" the society of impurities, disease, animals, vermin, or enemies. |
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GENOCIDE: denial? |
always found in genocide, among the surest indicators of further genocides |
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what does prevention require? |
early warning, rapid, response, courts for accountability |
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why does genocide continue? |
- authoritative international institutions - lack of ready rapid responses forces to stop it - lack of political will to peacefully prevent it and forcefully intervene to stop it. |
