North and West africa terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Charles Taylor | corrupted child soldiers in liberia, found guilty in 2012 for crimes against humanity, ex-president of Liberia |
| Otto von Bismarck | German leader that called together the Berlin Conference |
| Social Darwinism | the philosophy that one society can dominate another one |
| Nationalism | extreme support for ones country |
| King Leopold II | King of Belgium who declared the Congo as his own and then plundered its resources, mainly ivory and rubber, enslaved population, caused 10 million people to die |
| Bartolomeu Dias | explorer who rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 |
| Imperialism | The policy of extending the rule or authority of and empire/nation over foreign countries or colonization |
| Pygmies | largest remaining group of hunter/gatherers |
| Ota Benga | Pygmie that was put in a zoo |
| basin | depressions in an area of higher ground |
| Nile River | worlds longest river, flows through Egypt, Sudan, and Uganda |
| rift valleys | land that sank to form long, thin valleys |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | Africa's tallest mountain, tallest free standing mountain in world |
| escarpment | a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge |
| Sahara | largest desert in the world |
| Aquifers | stores of underground water |
| oasis | where the water from the aquifer comes to the surface |
| Serengeti plain | grassland in northern tanzania |
| canopy | uppermost layer of branches in a rainforest |
| Niger Delta | region in Nigeria that contains most of Nigeria's oil |
| Sahel | "shore of desert" in arabic, Narrow band of dry grassland along southern edge of saharra |
| Desertification | the process by which a desert is formed |
| aswan high dam | egyptian dam at lake nasser |
| silt | sediment |
| olduvai gorge | many fossils found here in northern tanzania |
| aksum | 100 AD, ancient civilization in ethiopia, important trade center |
| Berlin Conference | 1884-1885 conference over ground rule for colonization of africa; European countries divided up the land |
| cash crops | crops sold purely to bring in revenue, but takes space that could be used to farm food for locals |
| carthage | great cities of ancient africa, pre-European, Tunisia, sophisticated city |
| islam | major cultural and religious influence in northern africa |
| rai | type of music developed in 1920's by poor urban children |
| Goree Island | served as one of the busiest points for exporting slaves during the slave trade from the mid 1500's to the mid 1800's |
| stateless society | one in which people rely on family lineages to govern themselves, rather than an elected government or a monarch |
| Ashanti | people who live in Ghana who are known for their work in weaving colorful asasia (what westerners usually call kente clothe) |
| Menelik II | Emperor of Ethiopia, protected his country from the Italian invasion, remained free of European control |
| Souk | marketplace in North Africa |
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