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| an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large region |
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| the lending of small sums to poor people to set up or expand small business |
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| US policy to reduce the colonization of the Americas by European nations; stated that colonization was seen as an act of aggression |
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| race in South Africa, speak Afrikaans, outnumber British 3 to 2, descendants of the Dutch |
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| poor slums that form in land around cities in less developed countries that are full of unemployed, underemployed and impoverished people |
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| pattern of trade during colonial times between New England, Africa, and the West Indies involving slaves, rum, sugar and molasses |
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| in 2002, the 53 African union to replace the old and often inconsequential Organization of African Unity |
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| towns adjacent to US cities, manufacturing boomed with NAFTA |
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| meds used for the treatment of retroviruses such as HIV |
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| when a country decides to not trade with a certain country |
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| a factory that is created across the mexican-american boarders on the mexican side |
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| an area regarded as real or potential training grounds for al-Qaida affiliated groups; includes kenya, somalia, djibouti, niger, chad and mali |
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| established a line that split the new world between spain and portugal; spain received the most of the new world, with portugal getting a small portion of modern day brazil |
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| truth and reconciliation commission |
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| a court-like body that was assembled after the apartheid where victims and perpetrators of racial violence are invited to give testimonials about their experiences and some were chosen for public hearings |
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| an agricultural unit in Mexico characterized by communal farm land or common grazing area; its particular important to indigenous villages |
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| 1993 incident in which a black hawk plane was shot down by Somalian forces |
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| rwandan genocide between the poor majority w/o power and the rich majority in power |
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| region in western central africa containing niger, mauritania, senegal, the gambia, mali, and burkina faso |
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| caused by drought and irrigation in arid regions |
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