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