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Africa
Term | Definition |
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Alluvial Soil | rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water. |
Wadi | streambeds that remain dry until a heavy rain. |
Phosphate | a chemical used in fertilizers. |
Oasis | a place in the desert where underground water surfaces |
Pastoralism | the raising and grazing of livestock |
Ethnic Diversity | differences among groups based on their languages, customs, and beliefs. |
Infrastructure | basic urban necessities like streets |
Domesticate | take them from the wild and make them useful to people. |
Culture Hearth | centers where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward. |
Cuneiform | wedge-shaped symbols written on wet clay tablets that were then baked to harden them. |
Hieroglyphics | a form of picture writing |
Monotheism | belief in one God |
Prophet | messengers |
Mosque | a house of worship where Muslims pray |
Nationalism | a belief in the right of an ethic group to have it own independence. |
Nationalize | place under government control |
Embargo | a ban on trade |
Ziggurat | mud-brick temples |
Bedouin | desert nomads |
Bazaar | traditional marketplace, a busting area ranging from a single street of stalls to an entire district in a large city |
Arable | small part of the region's land that is suitable for farming |
Commodity | economic goods |
Petrochemical | products derived from petroleum or natural gas |
Gross domestic product | the value of goods and services in a country in a year |
Gross domestic product | pilgrimage |
Atlas Mountains | Africa’s longest mountain range, extends across Morocco and Algeria. |
Caucasus Mountains | rise north of Mount Ararat between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. |
Arabian Peninsula | To the east, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden separate the Arabian Peninsula from Africa. |
Persian Gulf | frames this peninsula on the east, and the Arabian Sea borders it on the south. |
Sinai Peninsula | the northwest, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba |
Anatolia | points west to the Aegean Sea. |
Dead Sea | sits at the mouth of the Jordan River. |
Caspian Sea | the largest inland body of water on Earth. This sea laps the shores of both Asia and Europe. |
Aral Sea | East of the Caspian Sea |
Nile River | the world’s longest river at 4,160 miles (6,693 km). |
Tigris River | flows mainly through Iraq. |
Euphrates River | flow mainly through Iraq. |
Sahara | the largest desert in the world at about 3.5 million square miles (about 9.1 million sq. km), covers most of North Africa. |
Rub’ al-Khali | or Empty Quarter, has the largest area of sand in the region. |
Kara-Kum | a desert in Central Asia |
Gulf of Aqaba | a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian mainland. |
Strait of Hormuz | a narrow, strategically important strait between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf |
Aswan High Dam | The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam built across the Nile at Aswan, Egypt between 1898 and 1902 |