Key terms Subsaharan Africa
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| show | Long-term biological maturation of the human species. Geographically, all evidence points toward East Africa as the source of humankind. Our species, Homo sapiens, emigrated from this hearth to eventually populate the rest of the habitable world.
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| show | The trough or trench that forms when a thinning strip of the Earth’s crust sinks between two parallel faults (surface fractures).
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| show | British colonial practice that kept indigenous power structures in place, co-opting individual rulers. The purpose was to minimize armed conflict and maximize profits.
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| show | One society or culture group taking land from another.
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| show | The successful late-twentieth-century development of higher-yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries.
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| show | The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a spatial perspective. Among other things, this geographic field examines the sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases.
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| show | The part of a national economy that is registered with government agencies and complies with laws and regulations, especially taxation. The complement to a country’s informal economy.
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| show | Literally, apartness. The Afrikaans term for South Africa’s pre-1994 policies of racial separation, a system that produced highly segregated socio-geographical patterns.
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| show | A bounded (non-island) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state.
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| show | Extreme dislike and fear of foreigners, sometimes fueled by populist politicians.
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