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18 Cards in this Set
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The _________ largest rain forest in the world covers more than half of Central Africa. |
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subsistence farming |
Most of Central Africa's people make their living through ___________________. |
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Bantu |
People who migrated out of West Africa bringing farming practices, language, and technology. |
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apartheid |
The rights of black South Africans were limited under ______________. |
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clan |
large group of people sharing a common ancestor
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oral traditions |
method of passing on stories about a group by word of mouth |
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pidgin |
simplified language used by people who cannot speak each other's language |
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nuclear family |
parents with their family |
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griot |
musical storyteller who is part historian |
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Berlin Conference |
European powers established rules for partitioning Africa |
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gold |
resource that first attracted Portuguese explorers to the region of West Africa |
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Nile River |
longest river in the world |
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genocide |
murder of an entire people because of their ethnicity |
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hydroelectric |
type of power provided by the rapids and waterfalls on the Congo River |
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barracoons |
used to temporarily hold captured enslaved persons during the early centuries of European contact with Africa |
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Atlantic Ocean |
body of water where many West African countries have coastlines |
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HIV/AIDS |
affects economic development in Africa by disrupting the labor force |
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Nelson Mandela |
anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's president in 1994 |
