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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tropics | area between the tropic of cancer and capricorn |
| Colonialism | the practice by which a powerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own power and wealth |
| Infrastructure | country, society, or organization consists of the basic facilities such as transport, communications, power supplies, and buildings, which enable it to function |
| sovereignty | power that a country has to govern itself or another country or state |
| Diaspora | People who come from a particular nation, or whose ancestors came from it, but who now live in many different parts of the world |
| Desertification | the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on |
| Genocide | deliberate murder of a whole community or race |
| Apartheid | a political system in South Africa in which people were divided into racial groups and kept apart by law |
| Tribunal | a special court or committee that is appointed to deal with particular problems |
| Diversity | fact that it contains many very different elements |
| Slave Trade | the buying and selling of slaves especially black africans, from the 16th to the 19th centuries |
| Age of Exploration | the time period when european countries were looking for a trade route to asia |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | below the sahara desert |
| Cataract | large waterfalls and rapids |
| Escarpment | steep cliffs that divide plateaus from the coast |
| Plateau | a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side |
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