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- 5. To obtain food directly from the soil.
- 7. People who live in what is now Ghana, in West Africa, and who are known for their artful weaving of colorful asasia, or kente cloth.
- 10. Farmers abandon crop areas after soil becomes infertile and clear out forests for new crop land. A.K.A. Slash-and-Burn. Mainly in tropical and subtropical zones.
- 11. A crop grown for direct sale, although relying on cash crops for revenue can be risky because the price of crops varies according to the world market.
- 14. The technique of separating metals from their ores.
- 16. Keeping animals for livestock, pets, protection, and/or work.
- 18. A conference of 14 European nations held in 1884-1885 in Berlin, Germany, to establish rules for political control of Africa.
- 21. Centered on machines and techniques of farming.
- 22. Growing only enough food to survive.
- 23. Takes place now when scientist genie ally modify food to help us out. Also the start of agribusinesses.
- 25. tending of crops and livestock to produce food and fiber.
- 27. Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Next to subsistence farmers.
- 28. Non-subsistence crops such as tea, coffee, and tobacco. Crops sold only for profit.
- 29. The Belgian King who opened up the African interior to European trade along the Congo River and by 1884 controlled the area known as the Congo Free State.
- 30. Big companies taking over small farms and using high technology to create a lot of profit.
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- 1. The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 B.C. to around A.D. 1000.
- 2. An East African ethnic group that lives on the grasslands of the rift valleys in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 3. A disease affecting a large population over a wide geographic area.
- 4. Getting milk from cows and other animals and turning it into other proud tucks.
- 6. Only agriculture related to a climate zone. This farming only occurs in areas with a climate like the Mediterranean.
- 8. 12,000 Years ago, centered on invention of farming. Increased life capacity of earth.
- 9. Crops produced without the use of pesticides or fertilizers.
- 12. One in which people use lineages, or families whose members are descended from a common ancestor, to govern themselves.
- 13. popular Algerian music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children that is fast-paced with danceable rhythms; was sometimes used as a form of rebellion to expose political unhappiness.
- 15. The raising of cattle for meat and sheep for meat and wool. Developed in the wake of European colonization. Commercial rasing of animals.
- 17. Centered on genetic engineering of plants and animals and biotechnology advancements.
- 19. Raising plants that can regrow when some part is buried and tended.
- 20. The growing of crops for production and sales. Crops are sent to retail stores to be sold.
- 24. Term used to describe the transformation of agriculture in many developing nations that led to significant increases in agricultural production between the 1940s and 1960s.
- 26. An important trading capital from the first to the eight centuries A.D. in what is now Ethiopia; it flourished due to its location near the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.