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Vocabulary
North Africa and Middle East Vocabulary
| Words | Definitions |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Pastorialism | the raising and grazing of livestock |
| Ethnic Diversity | differences among groups based on their languages customs and beliefs |
| Infrastructure | basic urban necessities like streets and utilities |
| 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 outwards |
| Cuneiform | wedge-shaped symbols written on wet clay tablets that were then baked to harden them |
| Hieroglyphics | a form of picture writing invented by the Egyptians |
| Monotheism | belief in one god |
| Prophets | messengers |
| Mosque | a house of worship where Muslims pray |
| Nationalism | a belief in the right of an ethnic group to have its own independent country |
| Nationlize | placed under government control |
| Embargo | ban on trade |
| Zigggurat | large, mud-brick temples which were shaped like pyramids and rose above the flat landscape |
| Bedouin | desert nomads |
| Bazaar | traditional marketplace, a bustling 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 |
| Hajj | pilgrimage |
| Atlas Mountains | extends across Morocco and Algeria; Africa's longest mountain range |
| Caucasus Mountains | rise north of Mount Ararat between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea |
| Arabian Peninsula | the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden separate this from Africa |
| Persian Gulf | frames this peninsula on the east, and the Arabian Sea borders it to the south |
| Sinai Peninsula | To the northwest, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba flank this |
| Anatolia | points west to the Aegean Sea |
| Dead Sea | sits at the mouth of the Jordan River |
| Caspian Sea | largest inland body of water on Earth |
| Aral Sea | the sea east of the Caspian Sea |
| Nile River | the world's longest river at 4,160 miles long |
| Tigris River | flows through Iraq |
| Euphrates River | flows through Iraq |
| Sahara | the largest desert in the world at about 3.5 million square miles, covers most of North Africa |
| Rub' al-Khali | has the largest area of sand in the region, called the Empty Quarter |
| Kara-Kum | place in Central Asia |
| Gulf of Aqaba | large gulf at the northern tip of the red sea |
| Strait of Hormuz | between the gulf of oman and the persian gulf |
| Aswan High Dam | an embankment dam built across the Nile at Aswan, Egypt between 1898 and 1902 |
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