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Africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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