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Literacy?
The ability to read and wright.
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Wangari Maathai?
An environmental activist in Kenya who challenged government policy by starting a green belt movement.
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3 obstacles confronting development
Over population,child labor, and economic dependence
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Shantytowns?
crowded and dangerous Slums consisting of flimsy shacks occupied by poor newcomers from Africa, Asia, and Latin American nations.
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Dang Xiaoping?
A practical reformer interested in improving the economy than in political purity.
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3 outcomes of development
women's roles evolved, religion influences societies,, and cities rapidly grow
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Green Revolution?
Commercially improved seeds, pesticides, and mechanical equipment such as tractors. and new farming methods
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Mother Teresa?
A roman catholic nun, founded the missionaries of charity in Calcutta.
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obstacles confronting Africa's future
Drought(starvation), AIDS, people moving to cities, and environmental threats
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Urbanization?
Movement of people from rural areas to cities.
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Juan Peron?
Nationalist president who increased the government's economic role. by raising wages backing labor unions.
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challenges facing china
Huge population growth, economic problems, and suffering human rights
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One-child policy
Limited urban families to a single child to control population growth.
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Mothers of the plaza de Mayo
women who marched holding pictures of there missing sons and daughters, kidnapped by the government
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rulers seize power, threatening revolution, U.S. intervenes with military, war on drugs, civil war
list only 3 difficulties china faced on the road to democracy
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