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Africa Vocab
african vocabulary terms
Question | Answer |
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a steep slope capped by a plateau | escarpment |
agricultural way of life that involves raising livestock and usually includes some farming | pastoralism |
gravel covered plain from which wind has blown the sand and dust away | reg |
crop whose fleshy roots are nutritious | cassava |
sediment courser than clay but finer than sand | silt |
language used in East Africa that developed as a trade language | Swahili |
a port in which unloaded goods are subject to few or no taxes | free port |
an open air trading market held regularly at a crossroads or in a town | periodic market |
religious belief that honors the memories of ancestors and holds that water, trees, animals, mtns, & other objects in nature have spirits | animism |
region of bush savannas and grasslands along the southern end of Africa's Sahara | Sahel |
product that comes from the sap of acacia trees and used in some meds and candies | gum arabic |
source of wealth used to make more wealth | captial |
economic/political measure, such as an embargo, used by countries to force another to cease a bad act | sanction |
dried meat of a coconut | copra |