Africa History Vocabulary

The transport of people from Africa across the Atlantic to become slaves in Europe and the Americas...

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The process through which a country controls another country

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The competition between European countries to gain territory and colonies in Africa

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Areas under the control of another country

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A type of rule of Europeans in Africa wherein the country (Great Britain in particular) would appoint local chiefs to be their enforcers

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An approach to ruling used by the French, in which they forced Africans under French control to give up their own culture and customs and adopt the French language and ways of life

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A war between citizens of the same country

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A harsh form of government where one person controls the entire country

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A movement that called for unity among African people; its goal was for people of African descent around the world to think of Africa as a homeland

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A tendency toward unpredictable or erratic behavior

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