Mayo Par 7 Flashcards
The steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area
Escarpment
Open grassland areas
Veld
Low , flat areas
Pans
Driest place in the region on the Atlantic Coast
Namib Desert
Dutch , French , and German settlers and their descendent in South Africa
Afrikaners
Afrikaner frontier farmers who had spread out from the original cape colony , resisted the British
Boers
South Africa’s government set up a policy of separation of races or “apartness”
Apartheid
Blacks had to live in separate areas , which were often crowded clusters of tiny homes
Townships
Economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to force a change in policy
Sanctions
Is a small territory surrounded by foreign territory
Enclave
What symbolizes the dance of masks?
The creation of the world
Namibia
Windhoek
Botswana
Gabrone
Zimbabwe
Harare
Mizambique
Maputo
Comoros
Moroni
Madagascar
Antananrivo
South Africa
CAPE TOWN
Pretoria
Bloemfontein
Swaziland
Mbanane
Lesotho
Maseru
Most of the land in Southern Africa lies on a
Plateau
The Dutch first settled in Southern Africa in 1652 near the
Cape of Good Hope
Who were the first Europeans to explore the southern coast of africa?
Portuguese
Which country had a policy called apartheid to separate different races?
South Africa