South Africa &
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
They were the first Europeans to invade South Africa.
Who were the Dutch/the Netherlands/Holland?
This is the fragile environmental border between the Sahara Desert and the greener grasslands of Africa.
What is the Sahel?
Communism.
What is an economic/political system where "all means of production are controlled by the government"?
Sustainable development.
What is using resources in ways that meet the needs of people without hurting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs?
It's the ancient name for the region that today makes up a central part of the Middle East.
What is Canaan?
Apartheid. (What & how.)
What was the South African government's policy of separating people by race, giving the white minority full political power?
Pastoral nomads. (Specific group name & what they do.)
Who are the Tauregs, herders who constantly move with their animals in search of pasture and water?
They're called S.E.Z.'s. (Name and how they function, where.)
What are special economic zones where some foreign companies can engage in capitalism in communist China?
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle, where plants emit oxygen, humans take it in, and then give carbon dioxide back to plants?
Zionism.
What is the movement that says the Jewish people should be free and have a country in their ancestral homeland?
After the indigenous Black Africans and white Europeans, these were the other two racial groups in South Africa.
Who were "the Colored" (mixed-race heritage) and Asians (from India, or the Indian Ocean slave trade)?
Shifting agriculture and subsistence farming.
What is farming in a spot for a while, then rotating to a different spot to save the soil, and growing just enough for your family?
After World War II, China went with this form of government under this leader.
What is communism and Mao Zedong?
They're the two major industries in Brazil that cause deforestation. (The industries and the people who work it.)
What is the beef industry/ranchers and lumber wood industry/loggers?
It's how these 3 groups lived under this empire.
What are Jews, Muslims, and Christians, peacefully, in the Ottoman Empire?
Nelson Mandela, in this year.
Who was the first black president of South Africa, in which year?
It's how some oases are formed.
What is when wind erosion wears away at low spots of land that dip into underground streams?
Singapore and South Korea are just two examples of these. (Title and what they did.)
What are the "Asia Tigers" and their adoption of capitalism as an economic style?
They're the workers in the Amazon responsible for the material in your erasers and tires.
Who are the rubber tappers?
It's the difference between nationalism and patriotism.
What is nationalism says one's nation is superior to all others, whereas patriotism is just national pride?
The discovery of gold and diamonds led to this conflict between these two groups.
What was the Boer War, between the Boers (Afrikaaners/the old Dutch) and the British?
They're the 3 types of landforms you find in the Sahara Desert. (Official names and descriptions.)
What are ergs (great seas of sand dunes), regs (gravel-covered plains) and hammadas (high rock-covered flatlands)?
It was China's official policy in response to a terrible natural disaster, and why.
What was the One-Child Policy, in response to a drought/famine that killed 20 million people, so there'd be fewer mouths to feed?
It's how long indigenous Amazonians have lived in the Rainforest.
What is 12,000 years?
Balfour Declaration. (The country behind it, the year, and the goal.)
What was England's 1917 plan to create a national home for the Jewish people?