Mayo Par 7 Flashcards

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1
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The steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area

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Escarpment

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2
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Open grassland areas

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Veld

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3
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Low , flat areas

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Pans

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4
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Driest place in the region on the Atlantic Coast

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Namib Desert

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5
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Dutch , French , and German settlers and their descendent in South Africa

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Afrikaners

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Afrikaner frontier farmers who had spread out from the original cape colony , resisted the British

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Boers

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7
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South Africa’s government set up a policy of separation of races or “apartness”

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Apartheid

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Blacks had to live in separate areas , which were often crowded clusters of tiny homes

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Townships

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9
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Economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to force a change in policy

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Sanctions

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10
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Is a small territory surrounded by foreign territory

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Enclave

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11
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What symbolizes the dance of masks?

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The creation of the world

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12
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Namibia

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Windhoek

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13
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Botswana

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Gabrone

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14
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Zimbabwe

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Harare

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15
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Mizambique

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Maputo

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16
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Comoros

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Moroni

17
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Madagascar

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Antananrivo

18
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South Africa

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CAPE TOWN

Pretoria

Bloemfontein

19
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Swaziland

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Mbanane

20
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Lesotho

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Maseru

21
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Most of the land in Southern Africa lies on a

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Plateau

22
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The Dutch first settled in Southern Africa in 1652 near the

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Cape of Good Hope

23
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Who were the first Europeans to explore the southern coast of africa?

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Portuguese

24
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Which country had a policy called apartheid to separate different races?

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South Africa

25
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Which two countries are enclaves?

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Lesotho and Swaziland