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South&Central Africa
Study review for Central and Southern Africa TEST
Question | Answer |
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Europeans who first colonized South Africa in the 1600's. | Dutch |
Descendants of the early Dutch and French settlers in South Africa. | Afrikaners |
Afrikaner name for farmers | Boers |
Europeans who came to South Africa in the 1800's and colonized it. Taking over land from the Boers (Dutch). | British |
Set of laws created by the Afrikaners in 1948 to keep the races sparate and keep the wealth and land in the hands of whites. | Apartheid |
The country that created Apartheid Laws | South Africa |
During Apartheid, this is the name for the separate areas where blacks were required to live in urban areas. | townships |
During Apartheid, this is the name for the sparate areas where blacks were required to live in rural areas | homelands |
Penalties imposed by one country on another to force changes in politics. | sanctions |
Southern African country with the strongest economy. | South Africa |
Afrikaner president who recommended that the apartheid laws be repealed. | F. W. de Klerk |
Trade barrier used by foreign nations who opposed South Africa's policy of apartheid. | embargo |
This person was the first black president of South Africa | Nelson Mandela |
type of political system in South Africa | Parliamentary Democracy |
Productive resource that includes land, water, and minerals. | natural resources |
productive resources that include training and education of workers. | human capital |
Productive resources that includes tools and machinery; infrastructure such as roads, bridges, dams, communication, and transportation that help in the production of goods and services | capital goods |
People who are willing to take a financial risk in order to open a new business or create new innovations. | entreprenuer |
graph that show trends in the growth of the number of citizens in a country per gender and age group. | population pyramid |
resources that are common in South Africa | gold and diamonds |
the name of massive food shortages caused by unstable governments, repeated droughts, and AIDS deaths which reduce the work force | famine |
Nelson Mandela's political party | African National Congress (ANC) |
a virus spread through certain body fluids that attacks the body's immune system and has no cure | HIV |
a disease in which there is severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering resistance to infection and malignancy | AIDS |
rough diamonds that were used illegally by rebels to fund conflicts across African countries | blood diamonds |