World Geography Chapter 19 Vocabulary
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| fossils containing the most continuous known record of humanity. | Olduvai Gorge
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| the first human creatures to make stone tools. | Homo habilis
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| important trading capital that is from Ethiopia. | Aksum
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| 14 European nations met to make rules for dividing Africa. | Berlin Conference
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| a crop grown for direct sale. | Cash crops
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| East African ethnic group that lived on the grasslands in Kenya and Tanzania. | Masai
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| are the largest ethnic group in Kenya. | Kikuyu
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| is an uncontrollable outbreak. | Pandemic
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| a disease caused by HIV that breaks down the immune system. | AIDS
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| causes the disease AIDS and often takes years to develop.causes the disease AIDS and often takes years to develop. | HIV
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| an extreme and long-term shortage of food. | Famine
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| one of the great empires of Africa located on the coast of the Mediterranean. | Carthage
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| a place where ideas and inventions come together to change a region. | Cultural Hearth
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| its another name for Egypt. | “Gift of the Nile”
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| a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of Muhammad. | Islam
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| another name for oil. | Black Gold
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| north African market places, | Souks
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| old section of a North African town or city. | Medina
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| popular Algerian developed by poor urban children as a form of rebellion to expose political unhappiness. | Rai
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| off the coast of Senegal that served as a major departure point for slaves. | Goree Island
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| war chief. | Ghana
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| one in which people use lineages or families whose members are descended from a common ancestor, to govern themselves. | Stateless Society
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| a people who lived in west Africa known for the weaving of colorful kente cloth. | Ashanti
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| cloth contains colorful woven geometric figures with specific meanings. | Kente Cloth
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| celebrates the end of the year’s harvest in India. | Sankranti
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| the movement of the bantu peoples southward throughout Africa. | Bantu Migrations
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| the Belgian king who opened up the African interior to European trade along the Congo River. | King Leopold II
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| the leader of Saire, which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, brought the country’s businesses under national control. | Mobutu Sese Seko
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| carved boxes containing the skulls and bones of deceased ancestors. | Fang sculpture
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| that came from the republic of Congo and usually causes death very shortly. | Ebola virus
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| a city in what is now Zimbabwe that became the capital of a thriving gold-trading area. | Great Zimbabwe
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| a state that extended throughout all of present-day Zimbabwe except the eastern part. | Mutapa Empire
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| a policy of complete separation of the races. | Apartheid
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| elected South African president in 1994 in the first all-race election. | Nelson Mandela
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| dance that reflects their traditional religious beliefs of a group in South Africa. | Qule wa mkulu
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| a dance performed by healers who wish to cure people of sickness. | Vimbuza
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| dance performed by Yao warriors poked fun at the European desire to march and have parades. | Benji dance
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