Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

White Dutch settlers in South Africa. Also the name of their language.

(ITCZ) A belt of low pressure around the equator.

Currency from another country.

A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.

The belief that non-human entities have spirits, prominent among hunter-gatherers yet evolving into subsequent cultures.

A giant continent that broke up around 180 million years into Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and South America.

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

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