| A | B |
|---|
| Age grade | all those boys and girls born in the same year |
| Bride wealth | gift given to the family of the bride by the groom to help to make up for the loss of her work in the family |
| cataract | large waterfalls |
| consensus | common agreement, used to govern a village in traditional Africa |
| cultural diversity | a variety of ideas within one culture |
| culture | all things that make up a people's entire way of life, it must be learned |
| desert | area receiving less than 10 inches of rain per year, the Sahara is one |
| desertification | the turning of a semidesert area into a desert by overgrazing, drought or cutting of trees and clearing of land |
| diaspora | the scattering of a people |
| drought | a prolonged period of little or no rain |
| escarpment | steep cliffs |
| first world | term used for countries in the world with a very high level of technology and per capita income |
| hieroglyphics | ancient form of writing using pictures and symbols |
| hydroelectric | energy produced by moving water |
| Karibadam | dam built on the Zambezi River |
| leaching | the washing away of the nutrients in the soil by heavy rainfalls |
| lineage | group of distant kin who trace their descent to a common ancestor |
| Livingstone | British Doctor, missionary who explored the African interior |
| Nile | River in Africa, flows north to the Mediterranean Sea, some 4,000 miles long |
| pharoah | title given to the ruler of Ancient Egypt |
| polygamy | the practice of having more than one spouse |
| rainforest | hot, humid climate, receiving between 60 - 120 inches of rain per year, located along the equator |
| savanna | grasslands, covering 50% of Africa |
| Shaka | Zulu king |
| sleeping sickness | disease spread by the tsetse fly |
| third world | areas of the world or countries with a low level of technology, low per capita income, poor |
| Tropics | the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn |
| Zaire | river which drains a hugh area in Central Africa |
| subsistence farmer | raising only enough food for your own needs |
