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NA & ME
North Africa & Middle East
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alluvial soil | rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water. |
| Wadi | streambeds that remain dry until heavy rain. |
| Phosphate | chemical used in fertilizers. |
| Oasis | a fertile spot in a desert where water is found. |
| Pastoralism | branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. |
| Ethnic diversity | differences among groups based on their languages, customs, and beliefs. |
| Infrastructure | basic urban necessities like streets and utilities. |
| Domesticate | taking animals from the wild to 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 | form of picture writing. |
| Monotheism | belief in one god. |
| Prophet | messengers |
| Mosque | house of worship where Muslims pray. |
| Nationalism | a belief in the right of an ethnic group to have its own independent country. |
| Nationalize | placed under under government control, the foreign-owned oil companies oil companies within their boarders. |
| Embargo | ban on trade |
| Ziggurat | mud-brick temples shaped like pyramids & rose about flat landscapes |
| Bedouin | desert nomads |
| Bazaar | traditional market place |
| Arable | land suitable for farming |
| Commodities | economic goods |
| Petrochemical | products derived from petroleum or natural gas |
| Gross Domestic Product | value of goods and services produced in a country in a year. |
| Hajj | pilgrimage |
| Atlas Mountains | Africa’s longest mountain range, extends across Morocco and Algeria. Enough precipitation falls on the northern side of these mountains to water the coastal regions, making them ideal for farming. |
| Caucasus Mountains | rise north of Mount Ararat between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. |
| Arabian Peninsula | seperated from Africa by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden |
| Persian Gulf | frames the Arabian Peninsula on the east. |
| Sinai Peninsula | flanked by the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest. |
| Anatolia | points west to the Aegean Sea. The Black and Mediterranean Seas lie at the peninsula’s north and south. |
| Dead Sea | sits at the mouth of the Jordan River. |
| Caspian Sa | 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 | world’s longest river at 4,160 miles |
| Tigris River | flows mainly through Iraq |
| Euphrates River | flows mainly through Iraq |
| Sahara | largest desert in the world at about 3.5 million square miles |
| Rub' al-Khali | also known as Empty Quarter & has the largest area of sand in the region |
| Kara-Kum | in Central Asia |
| Gulf of Aqaba | next to the Strait of Tiran |
| Strait of Horuz | links the Persian Gulf with the Red Sea |
| Aswan High Dam | 600 miles south of Cairo, Eqypt. created worlds first artificial lake |
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