The San Flashcards
When did the CAR Civil War start?
2012
Which woman was the example for poverty in CAR?
Florence Adeline
What is wealth?
Wealth is a stock or a store of goods and services which are the property of a person
What is income?
The maximum amount that a person can consume in a given time without reducing their wealth
What is capital?
Anything capable of yielding an income
What is the expectation of life at birth?
The average number of years a new born child would live if they experienced the age-specific mortality rates in the country at that time
How are infant mortality rates calculated?
The average number of deaths of those aged 0-5 per 1000 live births
Who wrote this quote, and when:
‘All wealth consists of desirable things … but not all desirable things are reckoned with wealth. The affection of friends, for instance…’
Alfred Marshall, 1890
Where is the CAR?
Directly South of the Sahara desert, with Northern CAR subject to desertification
How is national wealth defined?
The stock of produced capital
In what order were: The Bronze Age, The Stone Age, and The Iron Age?
The Stone Age: from 2.6 million years ago, up until 10,000 years ago
The Bronze Age: from 5,000 years ago, up until 1200 BCE
The Iron Age: from 1200 BCE to 500 BCE
Where do the San live?
Botswana and Namibia
Who suggested that the San are wealthy?
Marshall Sahlins
