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.
(ITCZ) A belt of low pressure around the equator.
A giant continent that broke up around 180 million years into Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and South America.
Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.
A Somali-based militant Islamic group.
The belief that non-human entities have spirits, prominent among hunter-gatherers yet evolving into subsequent cultures.
A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.
The slaughter of half a million Tutsis by rival Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.
A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.
White Dutch settlers in South Africa. Also the name of their language.
An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.
.png){kind=icon}