Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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A giant continent that broke up around 180 million years into Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and South America.

A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.

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

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

The downsides of a heavy reliance on one or more primary commodities such as oil, that include corruption, wildly fluctuating government revenues and stunted economic development

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).

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

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

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

Currency from another country.

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

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