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Rift valleys |
Which form when huge or that's not going to make you go so much faster this time fractures of faults appear in the Earth's crust and the strips of crust between them sink or are pushdown, to form great, Steep sided, linear valleys. |
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Continental drift |
The slow movement of continents controlled by the process associated with plate tectonics |
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State formation |
The creation of a state exemplifying traditions of human territoriality that go back thousands of years |
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indirect rule |
A system of government used by the British and the French to control part of the colonial empires particularly in Africa and Asia through pre-existing local power structures |
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Land tenure |
Refers to the way people own occupy and use land |
African traditions of land tenure are different from those found in Europe or the Americas in most sub-Saharan Africa communities not individuals customarily hold plant occupants of the land have temporary custodial rights to it and cannot sell it and maybe held by a large extended families a village community or even a traditional Chief who hold the land in trust for the people his subjects may have themselves on it and farm it but in return they must follow his rules |
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Colonialism |
Rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place so often establish and maintain through political structures colonialism also creates unequal cultural and economic relations because of the magnitude and impact of the European Colonial thrust the last few centuries the term is generally understood to refer to that particular Colonial endeavor m |
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Land alienation |
One Society or culture group taking land from another |
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The Green Revolution |
The development of more productive , drought tolerant pest resistant higher-yielding types of green has had less impact in Africa than elsewhere |
Basically there was the development of fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries |
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Agribusiness |
Agriculture conducted on Commercial principles especially using advanced technology |
The best option to increase yields and simultaneously fill government coffers . |
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Medical geography |
The study of health and disease within a geographic context in from a spatial perspective among other things this to your graphic field examines the sources diffusion routes and distributions of the seasons |
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Endemic |
Referring to a disease in a host population that affects many people in a kind of equilibrium without causing rapid and widespread death |
People affected me not die suddenly or romantically but their quality of life and productive capacity or hindered as their overall health this weekend and can deteriorate rapidly when the more acute illness strikes |
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Epidemic |
When a disease outbreak has a local or Regional dimensions |
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Formal sector |
The total activities in a country's legal economy that is taxed and monitored by the government whose gross domestic product and gross national product are based on it as opposed to an informal economy |
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Apartheid |
The word itself means Apartments but in practice it involves strict racial segregation and severe discrimination |
جدا نگه داشتن نژاد ها و نابرابریشون |
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Exclave |
A bounded piece of territory that is part of a particular state but was separated from it by the territory of another state |
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Landlocked state |
Interior State surrounded by land without Coast such a country is disadvantaged in terms of accessibility to international trade routes and in the Scramble for possession of areas of the continental shelf and control of the exclusive economic zone Beyond |
Uganda |
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Pandemic |
Venna disease that spreads worldwide |
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Periodic Market |
Village Market that is open every third day or at some other regular interval. Part of the regional network of similar Market in a pre-industrial,rural setting very good are brought to Market on food barter remains a leading food of Exchange |
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Choke point |
And narrowing of an international Waterway causing Marion traffic congestion , requiring reduced speeds and sharp turns, and increasing the risk of collision as well as volnerability to attack |
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Somalia |
Faildes state |
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Aftikaners |
People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa |
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Libreria |
Formed by former American slaves |
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