Unit+5+Africa

=Unit 5 Africa=

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Vocabulary
Escarpment - **steep cliff.** Cataract - **large waterfall.** Hydroelectric Power - **energy produced by moving water.** Leaching - **dissolving and washing away of the soil's nutrients by constant heavy rains.** Lineage - **group of distant kin who trace their descent to a common ancestor.** Consensus - **common agreement.** Diaspora - **migration or scattering of a homogeneous people.** Mosque - **Muslim house of worship.** Elite - **small group of people with high social status.** Guerrilla warfare - **hit-and-run attacks by small bands of fighters against a larger power.** Democratization - **moving toward a free system of government.** Multinational corporation - **huge business enterprises with branches in many countries.** Boycott - **refusal to buy certain goods or services.** Ethnicity - **attachment to one's own ethnic group.** Nonalignment - **policy that did not favor either the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.** Apartheid - **rigid separation of races by law in South Africa.** Alley-cropping - **method fo limiting soil erosion.** Economic sanction - **cutting off trade with another country to pressure it to change its policies.** Griot - **storyteller in traditional African societies.**