Africa/ Australia Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. A person who flees to another country for safety.
  2. 6. Egyptian system of writing that used pictures to represent sounds or words.
  3. 7. There are a total of 14 countries that are within Oceania. These 14 countries include Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Federated States Of Micronesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Tuvalu, and Nauru.
  4. 9. Means they believe in spirits—spirits of their ancestors, the air, the earth, and rivers.
  5. 10. The rulers of the Muslim empire. This figure had political and religious authority.
  6. 13. an acronym for migration, remittances, aid, and bureaucracy. Island countries who are not able to fully support the needs of their people through their own resources and labor. These countries depend on outside aid and remittances from workers who have migrated to overseas areas. One example of a MIRAB economy is the Polynesian island nation of Tonga.
  7. 14. The slaughter of an entire people on ethnic grounds. (Ex: Rwanda Hutu vs Tutsi)
  8. 15. language A simplified language used by people who cannot speak each other’s languages but need a way to communicate.
Down
  1. 1. Canal This canal stretches 120 miles from Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt southward to the city of Suez. The canal is a key trade route between Europe and Asia built in 1869.
  2. 2. A South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
  3. 3. The vast semi-arid region of Africa separating the Sahara Desert to the north and tropical savannas to the south.
  4. 4. The political and economic rule of one region or country by another country, usually for profit. European countries began to practice colonialism in the 1500s and 1600s. They first founded colonies in the Americas for economic gain.
  5. 8. An Afrikaans word meaning “apartness.” Apartheid limited the rights of blacks in South Africa. For example, laws forced black South Africans to live in separate areas called “homelands.” People of non-European background were not even allowed to vote.
  6. 11. trade Used to refer to the trade in the 18th and 19th centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities which were in turn shipped back to Britain.
  7. 12. Bans on trade.