The Internal Civil Strife of Zaire in the 1990s Tempted

question 22

Multiple Choice

The internal civil strife of Zaire in the 1990s tempted its neighbors to intervene to get material resources and to settle ethnic differences in their own borders in what has been dubbed:

• A) Africa's Open Wound.
• B) "Africa's world war."
• C) the long night of African agony.
• D) the Black man's burden.
• E) Africa's Sorrow.

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Definitions:

Collagen

Collagen is a structural protein found in the connective tissues of animals, including humans, providing tensile strength and elasticity to skin, tendons, ligaments, and bones.

Elastic

A property of materials that enables them to resume their original shape after being stretched or compressed.

Cartilage

A flexible, rubbery connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, the external ear, the joints, the rib cage, and elsewhere in the body.

Ectotherms

Cold-blooded animals whose body temperature is regulated by external environmental conditions, unlike endotherms that regulate their body temperature internally.