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Africa Vocabulary

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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AFRICA VOCABULARY 📝

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COLONIALISM

LEACHING

TO DISSOLVE OUT SOLUBLE CONSTITUENTS FROM SOIL ECT. BY PERCOLATION

LAND DEGRADATION

PROCESS IN WHICH THE VAKUE OF THE BIOPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT IS AFFECTED BY COMBINATION OF HUMAN INDUCED PROCESS

BAZAAR

A MARKET IN MIDDLE EAST COUNTRY

PERENNIAL IRRIGATION

WAS PRACTICED IN THE MESOPOTAMIAN PLAIN WHEREBY CROPS WERE REGULARLY WATERED THROUHOUT THE GROWING SEASON

WADI

A VALLEY RAVINE OR CHANNEL THAT IS DRY IN RAINY SEASON

CARAVAN

A VEHICLE EQUIPPED FOR LIVING IN TYPICAL BY A CAR USED FOR VACATION

MEDINA

THE OLD ARAB OR NON EUROPEAN QUARTER OF A NORTH AFRICA ,TOWN

SHIFTING AGRICULTURE

A FORM OF AGRICULTURE, USED ESPECIALLY IN TROPICAL AFRICA, IN WHICH AN AREA OF GROUND IS CLEARED OF VEGETATION AND CULTIVATED FOR A FEW YEARS AND THEN ABANDONED FOR A NEW AREA UNTIL ITS FERTILITY HAS BEEN NATURALLY RESTORED.

DEFORESTATION

DEFORESTATION IS THE CLEARING OF TREES, TRANSFORMING A FOREST INTO CLEARED LAND. THE FIRST STEP IN TURNING THE WILDERNESS INTO A SHOPPING CENTER IS DEFORESTATION. YOU CAN SEE THE WORD FOREST IN DEFORESTATION.

DESERTIFICATION

THE PROCESS BY WHICH FERILE LAND BECOMS DESERT TYPICALLY AS A RESULT OF DROUGHT & DEFORESTATION

REFUGEE

YA PERSON WHO HAS BEEN FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY TO ESCAPE

LANDLOCKED

I ALMOST ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY LAND HAVIBG A COASTLINE SEAPORT

INLAND DELTA

FORMS AT THE MOUTH OF A RIVER WERE THE RIVER FLOWS TO THE OCEAN

COUP

A SUDDEN VIOLENT AND ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF POWER FROM A GOVERNMENT

ANCESTOR WORSHIP

THE CUSTOM A VENERATION DECEASED ANCESTORS WHO ARE STILL CONSIDERED PART OF THE FAMILY

ANIMISM

THE ATTRIBUTION OF A SOUL TO PLANT INANIMATE OBJECTS AND NATURAL PHENOMENA

MERCENARY

PRIMARY CONCERN WITH MAKING MONEY AT THE EXPENSE OF ETHICS

BARTER

EXCHANGE FOR OTHER GOODS OR SERVICES WITHOUT USING MONEY

HARAMBEE

MEANS "ALL PULL TOGETHER "IN SWAHILI OFFICIALS MOTTO OF KENYA

ETHNOCRACY

THE IS THE TYPE OF POLITICAL REGIME IN WHICH THE STATE APPARATUS IS APPROPRIATE

APARTHEID

A POLICY OR SYSTEM OF SEGREGATION OR DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF RACE

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