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