Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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A grassy plain that contains few trees.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

(ITCZ) A belt of low pressure around the equator.

White Dutch settlers in South Africa. Also the name of their language.

Currency from another country.

Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

The belief that non-human entities have spirits, prominent among hunter-gatherers yet evolving into subsequent cultures.

The slaughter of half a million Tutsis by rival Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.

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