Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community that is found primarily in the state of California in the United States and in Baja California in the northwestern part of Mexico. These shrublands or heathlands are build by the Mediterranean climate and also by wildfires. They are highly adapted, and are able to withstand very high temperatures and droughts during the summer. The chaparral is evergreen, which is also from what it gets its name, ''evergreen oak shrubland'' if translated from Spanish language.
Colonialism made African colonies dependent by introducing a mono- cultural economy for the territories. It also dehumanized African labor force and traders. It forced Africans to work in colonial plantations at very low wages and displaced them from their lands.
The answer is : Consistent growth in GDP. Economic Growth is the increase in the market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time. In order to assess economic growth it must be measured. It is the percentage rate of increase in real gross domestic product (GDP).