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Middle Passage
2-3 month deadly journey a slave made from Africa to the colonies over the Atlantic Ocean.
Sahel
A semi-arid region near the Sahara.
Age Grade-System
Adulthood ceremony where children learn to support and learn from one another.
Slave Raiders
Africans who captured slaves in Africa's interior and brought them to the coast to trade with the Europeans.
Boers
Another name for Afrikaners or Dutch settlers in South Africa.
Afrikaners
Another name for Boers (Dutch) settlers in South Africa
Savanna
Another name for the grasslands in Africa.
Tropical Wet Climate
Another name for the rain forest climate or jungles of Africa.
Urban
Areas where many people live in the cities.
Animist Religion
Belief in spirits inhabiting that natural world.
Industrialized
Description of a nation's economy; production was done with machines in factories.
Lineage
Distant kin traced to a common ancestor.
Rain Shadow
Effect of a mountain on weather; one side gets more rain than the other.
Hydroelectric Power
Energy that comes from moving waters of rivers.
Imperialism
Establishing colonies by a strong nation seizing land.
Substance Farmers
Farming just enough for your family's needs.
Berlin Conference
Held in 1884-85 to ease tensions between European nations over colonial disputes in Africa, it drew boundaries for the colonies.
Kingdom
Large area ruled by one person or family.
Swahili Language
Mix of Arab and African words brought to Africa by Arab traders.
Anglo-Saxon Superiority
Motive for imperialism that said it was the Europeans duty to civilize and westernize Africans.
Pan-Africanism
Movement in the early 1900's to try to unify all of Africa.
Parent Country
Name for a European nation that controlled a colony in Africa during the Age of Imperialism.
"Invisible Children"
Name for children soldiers used by rebels in Uganda; called this sue to the lack of statistics and awareness of the situation by the outside world.
"Horn of Africa"
Name for East Africa due to its shape.
"Triple Heritage"
Name for the three influences on Africa's culture today: African, European, and Islam.
Factories
Name for the forts on the African coast where slaves were held until they were loaded onto European ships to be taken to the colonies.
"Gold Coast"
Name for West Africa because of all the gold traded for slaves there.
"Dark Continent"
Nickname for Africa before the interior was explored.
Lop-sided economy
One result of imperialism in Africa when a nation relies on 1-2 exports for their income.
Diaspora
One result of the slave trade; it's the spreading of people.
Boycott
Peaceful method used to try to gain independence; it's the refusal to buy goods from a country.
Nomad
People who move around in search of food and resources.
Nationalism
Pride in one's nation or nationality; used as a motive for the Age of Imperialism.
Desertification
Problem in North Africa of the desert expanding and spreading.
Leaching
Problem in the Tropical Wet climate where the heavy rain washed the nutrients out of the soil.
Triangular Trade Route
Routes taken by slave traders as they went from West Africa to the West Indies, to the North American colonies.
Clan
Several lineages put together.
Matriarchal
Societies dominated by females.
Partiarchal
Societies dominated by males.
Escarpment
Steep cliffs on the edge of a plateau.
Cultural diffusion
The movement of ideas from one place to another.
Guerrilla warefare
Type of warfare where a small force uses hit and run tactics against larger forces; it was used by African colonies to get their independence from European nations.
Slit
Very fertile farmland that is left behind when a river flood and then recedes
Boer War
War that broke out in South Africa between British and Dutch over the control of the gold and diamonds.
Apartheid
Word means "separateness"; policies that made blacks in South Africa live in separate areas and use separable facilities.