Africa vocab | Africa vocab cont. |
egyptian farmer | fellaheen |
open air markets | bazaars |
the rulers of ancient egypt | pharoahs |
basin irrigation | an old system by which water and silt was contorolled by embankments and time released to irrigate farmlands |
reservoir | an artificial lake |
perennial irrigation | an irrigation system that provides necessary water to the land throughout the year |
capital | money that is invested in building and supporting new imdustries |
wadis | a gully, or usually dry riverbed, cut in the earth by running water after a downpour in arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa |
caravans | large groups of merchants who have joined together to travel in safety |
medinas | the old section of a North African city, usually centered around a mosque |
souks | market areas |
shifting agriculture | a typoe of agriculture in which a site is prepared and used to grow crops for a year or two, at which point the farmer moves onto a new site |
forage | food for grazing animals |
deforestation | overharvested land that is stripped of its trees |
desertification | the loss of all vegetation |
refugee | a person who flees to escape his/her home to escape danger or unfair treatment |
land-locked | a nation that is cut off from the sea |
inland delta | an area of lakes, creeks, and swamps away from the ocean |
coups | sudden political takeovers |
ancestor worship | the belif that respecting and honoring one's ancestors will cause them to liveon in the spirit world after death |
animism | teh religious belief that such things as the sky, rivers, and trees contain spirit, or soul |