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Middle Passage   name given to the route used by slave ships across the Atlantic from West Africa to the Americas  
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cash crop   farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family  
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commerical farming   farming organized as a business  
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subsistence farming   traditional agriculture whose goal is to produce just enough for a family or a villiage to survive  
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shifting farming   method in which farmers move every few years to find better soil  
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sedentary farming   farming carried on at permenant settlements  
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desertification   process in which arable land is turned into desert, usually due to destruction of vegetation  
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extinction   the disappearance or end of a species of animal or plant  
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poaching   illegal hunting of proteced animals  
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habitat   area with conditions suitable for certain plants or animals to live  
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colonize   to settle an area and take over or create a government  
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ecotourism   tourism based on concern for the environment  
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universal suffrage   equal voting rights for all adult residents of a nation  
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escarpment   steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower land surface  
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cataract   a large waterfall  
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fault   a crack or break in the earth's crust; usually caused by intense folding  
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leach   to wash nutrients out of the soil  
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Sahel   the region in West and Central Africa that forms a chaning climate zone between the dry Sahara to the North and humid savahnas to the South  
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apartheid   policy of strict separation of the races adopted in South Africa in hte 1940s  
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urbanization   the movement of people from rural areas into citites  
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ethnic group   group of people  
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mass culture   popular culture spread by media such as radio and TV  
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lingua franca   a language (such as Swahili) used for communication amoung people with different native languages  
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oral history   legends and stories passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation  
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extended family   household made up of several generations for instance, aunts, uncles, and grandparents as well as parents and children  
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clan   tribal community or large group of people related to one another  
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Rick   the coolest Dad in the world  
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