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30 Cards in this Set
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AIDS |
A disease of the immune system caused by HIV |
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Aksum |
A city in Northern Ethiopia which served as an important trading center from the 100s to the 800s AD |
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Apartheid |
Government policy of racial segregation once practiced by the Republic of South Africa |
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Aswan High Dam |
An embarkment dam built across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt in the 1960s |
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Bantu Migrations |
The gradual movement of Bantu speaking people from West African throughout the African continent |
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Berlin Conference |
A conference which regulated European colonization and trade in Africa |
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Cholera |
A disease caused by an infection in the intestines which results in severe vomiting and diherrea and us often fatal |
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Colonialism |
The control and exploitation of an area by political power from another territory |
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Desertification |
An expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts |
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Ebola |
A disease spread through bodily fluids, which had a recent outbreak in Western Africa |
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Famine |
An extreme scarcity in food, often caused by crop failure, population unbalance or government policies |
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Fang sculpture |
Carved, painted, wooden masks made by the Fang people of Cameroon and Guinea |
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Great Rift Valley |
A geological fault system that runs through Eastern Africa |
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King Leopold II |
The king of Belgium during the 1800s, who exploited Congo for his personal gain |
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Malaria |
A mosquito born infectious disease of humans and other animals |
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Masai |
An ethnic group of semi nomadic people in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania |
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Mobutu Sese Seko |
The corrupt athoratarian dictator of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1965-1997 |
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Mt. Killmanjaro |
A dormant volcanic mountain in Tanzania, which is the highest mountain in Africa |
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Mutapa Empire |
A powerful kingdom from the 14th to 18th century in what is currently Zimbabwe and Mozambique |
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Nelson Mandela |
An anti apartheid revolutionary who served as the President of South Africa from 1994-1999 |
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Nile River |
A north flowing river that runs through several countries in Northeast Africa and is generally regarded as the longest river in the world |
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Olduvai Gorge |
A site in Tanzania that holds the earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors |
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One commodity country |
When a country's economy is dependent on one or two commodities |
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Pandemic |
An outbreak of disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high portion of the population |
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Rift Valley |
A lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by a geological rift or fault |
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Sahara |
The largest desert in the world, which stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea |
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Sahel |
A semi arid zone in Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Sudanian Savanna |
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Serengeti Plain |
Grassland in Northern Tanzania and Southwest Kenya that contains an abundant collection of wild life |
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Stateless society |
A society in which people rely on family lineages to govern themselves, rather than an elected government and monarch |
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Tuberculosis |
An infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by mycobacteria |
