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| represting one of three major Algerian nationalist responses to french colonialism that emerged around 1930,this muslim reformer and pruifier (1889-1940 sought to both revive islamic culuture and the Arabic language both based on the qurian |
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| In part a reaction to the Great Depression, a military coup overthrew the previous regime in this country in 1930, launching what became known as the infamous decade |
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| The Catholic Pope, Francis I, who has been making waves by calling for a global redistribution of wealth, grew up in the city of _____ |
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| The Dutch reformed member of the Afrikaner secret organization (the broederbond) founded the prified Nationalist party in 1934 and took advantage of the centennial of the Great Trek to intensity anti-British and anti-black attitudes amoung Afrikaners |
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| Coming to power in June 1943 this army colonel turned president pursued policies of working class populism, economic nationalism and authoritarianism that influenced Argentine politics long after his overthrow in 1955 |
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| Beginning in 1880s this city in south africa transvaal mushroomed into the regions largest metropolis thanks to the discovery of Gold underneath it |
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| Best farm land was turned over to grape production for the export of wine to europe in the final decades of the 19th century in ______- |
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| American writer Mark Twain perceptively labeled the period from 1860s to just prior to WW1 "the ___Age" |
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| Derived from an indigenous language, "che" became widely used term for "man in _______ |
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| Around 1880 wheat was replaced by ___ as Algerias chief export to France eventually making up half of export earnings and condemning the country to the risks of monoculture |
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| roughly equivalent to the battle of the Little big Horn in America this 1879 victory of a zulu foce over british force in south africa was a shock to the british since it contradicted the commonly accepted myths of western superiority |
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| The British business tycoom and imperialist made a fortune first in diamonds and then in gold and come to exemplify the greed and arrogance of the gilded age |
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| A series of natural disasters in ____ during the late 1860's set the stage for the final mass revolt against european rule based in the Atlas Mts called the Insurrection of 1871 followed by brutal repression indemnities and land confiscation |
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| A technological breakthrough in refigeration in 1876 combined with the raising of a new breed of cattle made________ one of the worlds leading exports of beef by ww2 |
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| In 1870 the cremieux decree raised the legal status of Jews in ______ making them naturalized citizens with full rights while creating resentment agianst them as well |
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| Just prior to 1870 huge deposits of diamonds were discoverd in ___ triggering a mineral revolution with lasting consequences |
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| As massive immigration shaped Argentine society around the turn of the century this term came to be used for foreigners, newcomers, or green horns |
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| Arriving in Southern Africa around ww1 he made a fortune in diamonds his descendents continue to control a global diamond cartel through interlocking relationship between the de beers and anglo american corporations |
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| This organization was origanally founded by a small group of south African intellectuals in 1912 and utilized an evolving range of tactics to demand civil rights for all South Africans regardless of race, a more activist youth league branch was founded in 1942 |
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| Born in french Algeria in 1913 he lost his father one year later and was raised by his embittered grandmother. three years after receiving the Nobel prize for liturature in 1957 he was killed in an automobile accident |
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| Nelson Mandela south Africans first democratically elected president who has taught the world about forgiveness was deeply influenced while a student at a ____ school. |
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| After oil was discoverd in its southern province in 1907 this country became the first on its contintent to establish a state owned oil company to compete against foreign captial |
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| Richard Elphick gave a seminal in 1993 at the African studies associations annual conference entitled ____ in south african history: a study of denial |
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| An extreme and tragic example of things falling apart due to internal conflict on the western/non-western frontier was the self-destructive "cattle killing demanded by a young priestess among the _people in south africa in 1856 |
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