chapter 21 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
agricultural revolution | the change from nomadic hunting and gathering to forming that took place abut 800bc |
civilization | an advanced culter |
monotheism | the belife of one god |
prodtectorate | an are that has its own goverment but in controoles by an out side power |
chaparral | the physical and human caracteristics that help people |
poaching | illegal hunting |
mosque | an islamic place of regigious worship |
muezzin | in islam a crier wo calls the faithfull to prayer fivve times each day from a minaret |
minaret | a tall slender tower attached to a moswue |
desalnation plant | the process of removing salt from sea water so that it can be used for drinking and irrigation |
nomad | a person who travels from place to place |
trade dficit | the situation in ich a country imports more than it exports |
trade surplus | the situation in wich a country ecports more than it imports |
autonomy | independence |
genocide | the systematic killing or intentional destruction of a people |
nationalism | pride in ones nation the desire of a cultural group to rule themselves as an separate nation |
chernozem | a rich topsoil found in the russian stepps and other midlatitude grassland |
yurt | a round tent made of a wooden frameworkd and coverd with felt or skins |
fundamentalism | a set of religous beliefs based on a strict interpretation of a sacred text |
desertification | the process of striping the land of its trees |
secular | |
shah | |
ayatollah | a religious leader amond shitte muslims |
sahel | |
colonilism | the system by wich countries set up solones to secure tsources of raw materials and markets |
platue | |
escarpment | |
chaparall | a type of natural vegetation that is adapted to mediteranean climates small evergreen trees and low bushes |
savanna | |
oral history | |
nomadic herding | |
leaching | the dissolving and waching away of nutrients in the soil |
land degradation | reduction in the productive potential of the land |
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