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| a type of agriculture whereby a farmer cultivates crops for sale in order to gain profit |
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| a type of farming in which most of the produce is consumed by the farmer and his family, leaving little or nothing to be market |
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| a person with a total household income at or below the national proverty level |
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| a semi-arid region just south of the Sahara |
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| a tropic forest, ususally of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall |
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| a land area having a relatively level of surface considerably raised bove adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons |
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| a steep slope separating two flat areas of different heights |
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| the world's largest desert |
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| a 355-foot waterfall on the Zambezi River in South Central Africa |
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| the longest river in the world, which empties into the Mediterranean Sea in northeast Egypt |
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| the highest mountain in Africa, in northeast Tanzania |
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| a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator |
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| a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator |
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| the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves |
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| the practice of one country controlling the government and economy of another country or territory |
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| 7 Nations of Europe that Colonized Africa |
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| Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Belgium |
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| founder of the Congo Free State- a private projecet of forced labour for rubber and ivory |
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| a republic in Central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960 |
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| the journey taken by slaves on ships from West Africa to the West Indies |
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| Human Development Index (HDI) |
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| a tool developed by the United Nations (U.N) to measure and rank countries' level of social and economic development based on income, health, and education |
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| the average measure of a country's overall economic output |
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| the average period that a person may expect to live |
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| the rate of death before a baby's first birthday out of 1,000 babies |
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| the rate of a woman dying during child labor out of 100,000 women/ mothers |
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| Expected Years of Schooling |
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| average number of formal schooling that children are expected to receive |
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| Human Immunodefinciency Virus |
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| a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume |
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