South Africa Unit Vocabulary

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through military and economic means

• Apartheid

• Colonies

• Imperialism

The African National Congress is

• a group of people who, following a tradition, belong to the same family

• political party founded in 1912 as an African Nationalist movement. It was banned from 1960-1990 because it opposed Apartheid.

• People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.

• Collective name of a large group of African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages.

"Zulu" is _____________

• a term used to describe the San and Khoi Khoi peoples who preceded Bantu-speakers in southern Africa

• The science or practice of farming crops and raising animals

• A member of a South African people who formed a powerful military empire in southern Africa during the 19th century before being defeated by the Afrikaner and British settlers.

• A member of a South African people who form the second largest ethnic group in South Africa after the Zulus

A policy or system of segregation and discrimination on grounds of race established in South Africa in 1948.

• Xhosa

• Apartheid

• Colonies

• Imperialism

A group of people who, following a tradition, belong to the same family.

• clan

• ethnic group

• Bantu

• empire

Dutch farming settlers in South Africa.

• Boers

• Xhosa

• Colonies

• Khoisan

The Khoisan were _____________

• Countries of territories under control or occupation of another country

• the combination of the San and Khoi Khoi people who lived in southern Africa before the Bantu speaking tribes arrived

• Members of the largest South African ethnic group

An empire is ________

• people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture

• collective name of a large group of African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages

• a group of people who, following a tradition, belong to the same family

• A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler or nation

The collective name of a large group of African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages

• Bantu

• Boer

• Xhosa

• Afrikaners

The Boer War was _______________

• a collective name of a large group of African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages

• a group of South Africans who descended from Dutch and French settlers of the 17th century.

• a conflict lasting from 1899 to 1902. The Dutch and British settlers competed for control of territory in South Africa. Also known as the South African War.

• a political party founded in 1912 as an African nationalist movement.