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Africa Vocab Flashcards

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Gravel covered plain in desert area

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Reg

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Sea of sand created by a high, shifting sand dune

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Erg

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Large low areas

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Depressions

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Dry steam beds that fill with water only after rainfall

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Wadis

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Sector of economy made up of people who do not work for formal businesses, including many self employed people and small family owned businesses

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Informal sector

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Cultural group that has lived in North Africa since long before waves of Arab armies crossed the continent

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Berbers

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Fertile; finely ground soil deposited by flowing water

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Silt

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Ancient Egyptian monarchs

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Pharaohs

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Pictures and symbols used in ancient Egyptian writing system

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Hieroglyphs

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A political organization that pushed for an en to the apartheid on South Africa

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African National Congress

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Peasant farmers of North America

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Fellahin

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Region of semiarid climate extending from Senegal and Mauritania to Sudan in Africa

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Sahel

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Spreading of dessert conditions

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Desertification

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Economies in which some goods are produced for export while other goods are produced for local Consumption

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Dual economies

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Language in east Africa with roots in language of the African coast with added Arabic words

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Swahili

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Strong, durable plant fiber used to make role or twine

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Sisal

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As of acacia trees; a sticky substance that blinds the ingredients in many candies and medicines

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Gum Arabic

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The intentional destruction of people

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Genocide

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Steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area

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Escarpment

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The variety of plants and animals

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Biodiversity

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Port where almost no taxes are placed on the goods unloaded from other places

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Free port

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Grassland regions of SouthAmerica

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Veld

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Dutch, French, and German settlers and their descendants in South America

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Afrikaners

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Official policies that forced back Africans to live in separate areas and use separate facilities from white South Africans

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Apartheid

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Penalties intended to force a country to change its policies

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Sanctions

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