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AIDS: One of the biggest problems facing the Mbeki government in South Africa was the ____ epidemic.
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Apartheid: Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
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Berlin Conference: A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa
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Boer: A Dutch colonist in South Africa.
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Boer War: A conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa.
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British: This nation used local officials in their rule of colonies
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disease, poor geography, and African armies: Reasons Europeans were kept away from Africa for 400 years
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ethnically diverse: What Africa was like prior to colonization
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Federal system: a system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states
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guerrilla: Jomo Kenyatta used ____ tactics to fight the British, but they threw him in prison
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Imperialism: a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
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Jomo Kenyatta: Leader of colonial opposition in Kenya and Kenya's first president
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Kwame Nkrumah: founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first president
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Racism: Belief that one racial group is superior to another
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Social Darwinism: The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle.
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Social Darwinism: Reason for imperialism dealing with survival of the fittest
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South Africa: F. W. de Klerk legalized the ANC, released Mandela from prison, repealed apartheid laws, and held universal elections in this country
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strikes and boycotts: Kwame Nkrumah used ____ to free the people of Ghana from the British
