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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Geography | The study of people, their environment, and their resources. |
| Location | Position of a place on the Eatrh's surface. |
| Latitude | Distance north or south of the Equator. |
| Longitude | Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian. |
| Exports | Goods sent to markets outside a country. |
| Imports | Goods brought into a country. |
| Interdependence | Mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world. |
| Map Projection | Way of showing the curved Earth on a flat surface. |
| Topography | Physical features of a place or region. |
| Vegetation | Plant life of a place or region. |
| Elevation | Height above sea level |
| Plains | Large area of level, or gently rolling land. |
| Plateaus | Large area of high flat, or gently rolling land. |
| Climate | Average weather of a place over a period of 20 to 30 years. |
| Equator | Imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. |
| Prime Meridian | Imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern or Western hemispheres. |
| Mt. Kilimanjaro | Mountain in northeastern Tanzania. |
| Escapements | Steep cliff. |
| Cataracts | Large waterfall. |
| Great Rift Valley | Giant fault in East Africa extending from the Red Sea to the Zambezi River. |
| Hydroelectric Power | Energy produced by moving water. |
| Nile River | Longest river in Africa. |
| Congo River | Large river in Central Africa that empties into the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Niger River | River in West Africa. |
| Zambezi River | River in Southern Africa. |
| Mineral exports | Diamonds are an example of one. |
| The Taureg | Nomads of the Sahara. |
| Lake Victoria | Africa's largest lake by area. |
| Sahara Desert | Largest desert in the world;extends across much of North Africa. |
| Democracy | Form of government in which the people have supreme power. |
| Dictatorship | Form of government in which a ruler holds power by force. |
| Diffusion | Movement of customs or ideas from one place to another. |
| Economy | Refers to how people use limited resources to satisfy their wants and needs. |
| Ethnocentrism | Judging other cultures by the standards of one's ownn culture. |
| Extended Family | Several generations living in one household. |
| Monotheism | Worship of one god. |
| Nuclear family | Traditionally a wife, husband, and their children. |
| Polytheism | Worship of more than one god. |
| Racism | Belief that one racial group is superior to another. |
| Social Class | Classes that rank people in order of status. |
| Subculture | Group of people within a society who have their own seperate beliefs, values, and customs. |
| Technology | Skills and tools a people use. |
| Kinship | The relationship of people through birth or marriage. |
| Patrillineal Descent | Tracing your heritage through your father's side of the family. |
| Polygamy | Having more than one husband or wife. |
| Matrillineal Descent | Tracing your heritage through your mother's side of the family. |
| Bilineal Descent | Tracing your ancestry through both your parents' sides. |
| Shaman | A religious specialist and healer. |
| Dowry | A transfer of property from the bride's family. |
| Abolition | Movement to end slavery. |
| Middle Passage | The route that slaves traveled from Africa to the Americas. |
| Pan-Africanism | Nationalist movement that began in the early 1900s and called for unifying all of Africa. |
| Olaudah Equiano | An 11-year-old boy who was captured and became a slave until he bought his freedom. |
| Mungo Park | Wanted to find the source of the Niger River, wrote a book about his journey that made him a hero in Europe. |
| David Livingstone | A missionary and doctor that wanted to spread Chrisianity,and discovered and named Victoria Falls. |
| Berlin Conference | A meeting held in Berlin, Germany in 1884 to divide Africa among the European powers. |
| Apartheid | Rigid seperation of races by law in South Africa. |
| Aninism | Belief that spirits live in the natural world. |
| Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who became the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994. |
| Imperialism | Control by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. |
| Hutus | The killers in the genocide. |
| Tutsis | The victims in the genocide. |
| Rwandan Patriotic Front | The current ruling political party of Rwanda |
| Genocide | Delibrate killing of an ethnic or religious group. |
| Mayans | A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around A.D. 300-900. |
| Aztecs | A member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. |
| Incas | A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest. |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors of Latin America. |
| Columbus | A Spanish explorer who discovered the New World in 1492 |
| Columbian Exchange | Global exchange of people, goods, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. |
| Viceroy | Official who rules in place of a king. |
| Cabildos | Councils established by Spain to govern the towns founded by Spanish settlers in Latin America. |
| Enconmiendia System | A right to demand taxes or labor from native peoples in the Spanish colonies. |
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