African Asian Studies: Africa Unit
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Explain West Africa's powerful kingdoms | slaves are imported from Africa |
| What were the results of European imperialism in Africa? | new political and economical systems developed |
| apartheid | rigid seperation of races |
| oral literature | storytellers who recited events from history |
| Boers(Africaaners) | dutch who came to africa |
| refugee | people who flee from their homes |
| escarpment | cliff |
| cataract | waterfall |
| climate regions in africa | different for different parts |
| Kalahari Desert | desert in southern africa |
| great rift valley | giant fault in africa |
| Victoria Falls | waterfall on zambezi river |
| Mt. Kilaminjaro | mountain in northeastern tanzania |
| Bantu | language in east africa |
| 3 trade kingdoms | ghana, mali, songhai |
| middle passage | trip across atlantic |
| 1st people to discover africa | portugese |
| david livingstone | 1st white man to see victoria falls |
| henry stanley | man who went looking for david livingstone |
| who looked for the source of the nile | burton and speake |
| zulus | native americans |
| economic sanctions | cutting off trade with another country |
| liberia | place where all free slaves could go |
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