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section 2 africa voc
Africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agricultural revolution | a period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants |
| first language | the language that children learn |
| caravan | a group of traveling merchants |
| lingua franca | the common language among a group of people |
| trans-saharan | across the sahara desert |
| alluvia | 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 africa slaves |
| malnutrition | lack of food |
| imperialism | the practice of extending a nation's influence by controlling other territories |
| colonialism | the one country directly ruling and developing trade in a foreign territory for its own benefit |
| missionary | a person sent by a religious organization to covert others to that religion |