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Ch. 13 Sect. 2 Vocab
Sub-Saharan Africa Geography & History
Term | Definition |
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agricultural revoution | a period in which humans began to grow crops instead o gathering plants |
first language | the language learned by the children of a people |
caravan | a group of merchants traveling together for safety |
lingua franca | the common language among several groups of people |
trans-Saharan | across the Sahara desert |
alluvial | describing the sediment deposited by a river |
city-state | an independent state made up of a city and the territories depending on it |
trans-Atlantic slave trade | the business of trading slaves taken from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas starting in the 1500s |
malnutrition | the lack of enough food or nourishment |
imperialism | the practice of extending an nation's influence by controlling other territories |
colonialism | the practice of one country directly ruling and developing trade in a foreign territory for its own benefit |
missionary | a person sent by a religious organization to convert others to that religion |