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The process by which people are gradually absorbed and integrated into another culture.
Assimilation
A meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa
The Berlin Conference
First black president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land
Colonization
Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region for the sake of building an empire.
Imperialism
South Africa's president in 1990 pushed through laws that tore down apartheid.
F. W. de Klerk
Process of taking natural resources from the colony to sent back to the colonizing nation to create finished goods to be sold in the global market
Mercantilism
Europeans divided Africa's land and resources among themselves with little regard to the people groups it would impact
European partitioning
South African organization that worked for civil rights among non-European heritage groups
African National Congress
Why is there still conflict today even though African countries are independent?
They kept the European artificial political boundaries
Competition between European countries to imperialize/claim land and its natural resources in Africa
Scramble for Africa
The former policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa
Apartheid
When did many African groups begin to challenge European colonial rule?
After WW11
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country, religious group or ethnic group.
Nationalism
White European heritage South Africans were known as this
Afrikaners