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Geography Africa

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show the value of a country's location for nations planning large-scale military action  
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show a form of government in which one ethic group rules over others  
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show forcing rural people to move into towns and work on collective farms  
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show a swahili word which means 'pulling together'  
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pyrethrum   show
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malnutrition   show
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coup   show
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show the idea that spirits of the dead will live on if the people still living continue to honor and respect them  
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show the belief that gods or spirits can be found in ordinary things such as the sky and trees  
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shifting agriculture   show
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forage   show
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show the stripping of land of its trees, especially prominent in the sahel  
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desertification   show
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refugee   show
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landlocked   show
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inland delta   show
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show agencies of the united nations that gives loans to countries for development projects  
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show a set of guidelines that is supposed to make a country's economy work better, has been put into effect in nigeria  
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watershed   show
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mercenaries   show
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show when people exchange goods instead of money  
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enclave   show
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show departure of trained white administrators and technicians  
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land redistribution   show
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apartheid   show
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segregation   show
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show actions that punish a country for behavior unacceptable to the international community of nations  
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colonialism (definition)   show
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show by force, sometimes trickery, sometimes by "agreement", racism played a role  
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show economic dependency, authoritarian, with lasting impact on economic, social, and political affairs, but led to resistance and ultimately independence  
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berlin conference   show
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show improved healthcare, new agriculture methods, development of resources, improvements in transportation, communication, and education  
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colonial detriments to africans   show
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show growth of cities, high child and maternal mortality rate, low life expectancy complicated by AIDS, not densely populated  
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show spending on education and food falling bc healthcare, over 14 million orphans, those with farms spend less time farming so make less money  
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show supply of teachers falling drastically, no secondary school age orphans in school still, only half in primary school  
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AIDS impact on the health sector   show
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show companies reduction of production bc less workers, most productive members of society more likely to be diseased  
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show the practice of moving flocks to different pastures throughout the year  
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show a steep cliff that separates two level areas of different elevations  
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show the dissolving and washing away of nutrients in the soil  
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chaparral   show
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oral history   show
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show a tropical grassland with scattered trees, located in the warm lands near the equator  
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show an area of high, flat land  
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sahel   show
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land degradation   show
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show the average number of people living in a given area  
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