| A | B |
| apartheid | legal separation of races |
| market | based on supply & demand |
| tariffs | tax placed on imported goods |
| autocracy | one leader holds complete power |
| federal | central government divides the power |
| democratic | all citizens participate equally |
| unitary | central government has all the power |
| confederation | a loose alliance of countries which control their own laws |
| oligarchy | control rests with the few |
| genocide | a systematic, planned annihilation of a race, religion, or political group |
| specialization | a product a country makes best |
| Boers | Dutch farmers |
| colonialism | forced control of one nation by another |
| imperialism | countries' competing for land & power |
| nationalism | a strong belief in one's country |
| The Netherlands | first European country to colonized South Africa |
| Scramble of Africa | growth of European colonies in Africa |
| African National Congress | a group who fought for the rights of blacks, mixed, & Asians in South Africa |
| Dark Continent | nickname Europeans called Africa |
| Nelson Mandela | a South African statesman who fought against separation of races & elected as president in |
| F.W. deKlerk | a former South Africa president who freed an important man from prison |
| Pan African Movement | desire for people of African descent, no matter where they lived in the world, to think of Africa as a homeland |
| townships | a racially segregated urban area outside a city |
| homelands | special reserves with little land & no resources |
| embargo | when one country announces that it will no longer trade with another country |
| quota | sets a specific amount of a particular product that can be imported in a given period of time |