North Africa Vocabulary

The policy or practices of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it

• Acculturation

• Biome

• Contagious Diffusion

• Imperialism

The transfer of values and customs from one group to another

• Assimiliation

• Acculturation

• Imperialism

• Sovereignty

An area of the planet that can be classified according to the plants and animals that live in it

• Biome

• Climate

• Rural

• Urban

Often the positive aspects of a different country that encourage people to immigrate in order to seek a better life

• Push Factors

• Acculturation

• Pull Factors

• Assimilation

Of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture

• Urban

• Rural

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Cultural Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

Refers to a cultural trait spreading across a population like a disease

• Cultural Diffusion

• Contagions Infusion

• Cultural Infusuon

• Contagious Diffusion

Having supreme power or authority over themselves

• Urban

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Sovereignty

Something that makes people want to leave a place or escape from a particular situation

• Pull Factors

• Push Factors

• Rural

• Urban

Characteristics of a town or city

• Megacity

• Rural

• Urban

• Farming