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The flat grassland of Southern Africa

*. The flat grassland of Southern Africa. Veldt. A series of broad, steep-walled valleys in East Africa that stretch from the Red Sea to Mozambique. The Great Rift Valley. (a naval blockade) A penalty that is imposed upon a nation that is violating international law. Sanction.

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The flat grassland of Southern Africa

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  1. * The flat grassland of Southern Africa

  2. Veldt

  3. A series of broad, steep-walled valleys in East Africa that stretch from the Red Sea to Mozambique

  4. The Great Rift Valley

  5. (a naval blockade) A penalty that is imposed upon a nation that is violating international law.

  6. Sanction

  7. the process by which land that can be farmed or lived on turns into desert

  8. desertification

  9. An overthrow of a government by force

  10. Coup d’tat(koo-day-TAH)

  11. A way of life in which people raise cattle, sheep or goats as their primary economic activity

  12. Pastoralism

  13. A raised area of relatively level land

  14. Plateau

  15. A long period of time without rain

  16. drought

  17. A large waterfall (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)

  18. Cataract

  19. Family relationships

  20. Kinship

  21. The movement of people from the countryside to cities

  22. Urbanization

  23. * A person who goes to another country to do religious or social work

  24. Missionary

  25. A flat grassland in a tropical or subtropical region with scattered trees and shrubs.

  26. Savanna

  27. A process in which animals graze grass faster than it can grow back.

  28. Overgrazing

  29. A semiarid region south of the Sahara

  30. Sahel

  31. The gradual spreading of the (early farmers) across Africa over 2,000 years

  32. Bantu migration

  33. An official policy of racial separation formerly practiced in South Africa

  34. apartheid

  35. The practice of one country’s controlling the government and economy of another country or territory

  36. Imperialism

  37. Alongcliff or steep slope

  38. escarpment

  39. Workedto end apartheid in South Africa—and became their president in 1994

  40. Nelson Mandela

  41. A system by which a country maintains colonies outside its borders

  42. Colonialism

  43. A method of farming in which people grow food mainly to feed their households rather than to sell

  44. Subsistence farming

  45. * A nomadic East African society that was weakened in the 1800’s by wars and drought

  46. Masai

  47. * Ethnic group that migrated to Southern Africa about 1800 years ago. They have traditionally lived in villages and farmed the land.

  48. Zulu

  49. * Descendants from Dutch settlers who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the 17th century

  50. Afrikaners

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