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What are the South African countries? |
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Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar,South Africa, Swaziland, And South Africa |
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What South African countries are enclaves(countries surrounded or almost completely surrounded by another country? |
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Lesotho(completely surrounded) and Swaziland |
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What are the climates in South Africa? |
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Range from desert to cool uplands. Most of the interior is semiarid. Mediterranean in some places |
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What is the vegitation of south africa? |
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Steppe and Savannah vegeatation |
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What are the mountain ranges in South Africa |
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Drakensburg and Inyanga Mountains |
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What is the climate and weather near the Cape of Good Hope? |
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Winter rains and Summer drought create a Mediterranean--storms and rough seas off the Cape are common |
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What two climatesgive way to two major deserts? |
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What deserts are in south africa? |
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Kalahari Desert + Namib desert |
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Where is the Namib desert? |
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Where is the Kalahari desert? |
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Occupies most of Botswana |
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What major rivers are in South Africa? |
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Orange river and Limpopo river. |
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What are the physical features of South Africa? |
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mountains, deserts, rivers, and large plateaus |
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What are the resources of South Africa? |
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Gold, diamonds, platinum, copper, uranium, coal, and iron. |
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Afrikaner froniter farmers |
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What European countries affected South Africa |
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the Dutch, British, and Portoguese |
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How do archeologists believe Chinese porcelain came to Great Zimbabwe |
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Archeologists suggest that Africa and East Asia were connected by and Indian Ocean trade network |
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In what year did Portoquese set up forts in Mozambique |
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In the 1700s and 1800s what country became an important part of the slave trade |
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Where did Madagascars first settlers come from? |
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Asia, rather than africa in A.D. 700 |
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In what year did the Bantu group, Shona, build an empire. |
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What countries were included in the empire built by the shona? |
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Gold Was discovered in an area controlled by boers in year |
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in 1885 Batswana was called |
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when Botswana went under british contol namibia became |
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German Southwest Africa--a german colony |
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The land around the Cape of Good Hope did not have gold + copper but they were free of |
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teste flies and mosquitos that spread tropical diseases. |
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White descendants of the original colonists of south africa |
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In 1652 the _ set up a trade station at natural harbor near the Cape of Good Hope |
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The small colony around the Cape of Good Hope was known as |
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The Dutch brought in slaves to work in what colony? |
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The main language spoken in Cape Town was__. Anew language called__ |
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Khoisan, _, and Malay words were added to the Dutch,together with some _ vocab. |
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In the early 1800s, ___ took over the are of the Cape |
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People descended from Malays, Khoisan, or a mixture of these with Europeans |
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