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AAS 1. Vocabulary 20
AAS 1. Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | An official language of the republic of south africa. |
| Afrikaner | A white native of cape who is a descendant of dutch settlers and speaks africans. |
| Agriculture | The process of cultivating the land of rising stock. |
| Algeria | A republic in northwestern africa on the mediterranean sea with a population that is predominantly sunni muslim; colonized by france in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s. |
| Almoravid | A member of a muslim dynasty of berber warriors that flourished from1049 to 1145 and that established political dominance over northwestern africa and spain. |
| Angola | A republic in southwestern africa on the atlantic ocean. |
| Animism | The doctrine that all natural objects have souls. |
| Apartheid | A social policy of racial segregation. |
| Aquifer | Underground Layer of rock or sand that yields groundwater. |
| Assimilation | The process of absorbing one cultural group into another. |
| Bantu | Of or relating to the african people who speaks one of the bantoid languages or to their culture. |
| Belgian Congo | A republic in central africa . |
| Benin | A country on western coast of africa. |
| Berber | A member of an indigenous people of northern africa. |
| Boer | A native of Cape province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks afrikaans. |
| Boer War | EIther of two wars, the first when the boers fought england in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain british help against the zulus (1880-1881); the second when the orange free state and transvaal declared war on britain. |
| Botswana | A landlocked republic in south central africa that became independent from british in the 1960s. |
| Burkina Faso | A desperately poor landlocked country in western africa. |
| Burundi | A landlocked republic in east central africa on the northwestern shore of lake tanganyika. |
| Camel | Cud-chewing mammal used as a saddle animal in desert regions. |