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vocab- Danny Albert
vocab
| 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 fall |
| Phosphate | a chemical used in fertilizers |
| Oasis | a place in the desert where underground water surfaces |
| Pastoralism | raising and grazing of livestock or a way of life for people who live in a steppe climate |
| Ethnic diversity | differences among groups based on 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 develped and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
| Cuneiform | wadge-shaped symbols written on wet clay tablets |
| Hieroglyphics | form of picture writing |
| Monotheism | belief in one god |
| Prophet | messenger |
| Mosque | a house of worship where the Muslims pray |
| Nationalism | belief in the right of an ethnic group to have its own independent country |
| Nationalize | placed under governments control |
| Embargo | a ban on trade |
| Ziggurat | large mud-brick temples |
| Bedouin | desert nomads |
| Bazaar | traditional marketplace |
| Arable | suitable for farming |
| Commodity | economic goods |
| Petrochemical | products derived from petroleum or natural gas to make fertilizers, medicines, plastics, and paints |
| Gross domestic product | the 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 |
| 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 this Peninsula from Africa. |
| Persian Gulf | This Gulf frames this peninsula on the east, and the Arabian Sea borders it on the south. |
| Sinai Peninsula | To the northwest, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba flanks this Peninsula. |
| Anatolia | To the north, the peninsula of this place points west to the Aegean Sea. |
| Dead Sea | The smallest of these seas, sits at the mouth of the Jordan River. |
| Caspian Sea | In Central Asia, this Sea is the largest inland body of water on Earth |
| Aral Sea | this sea is East of the Caspian Sea Until the 1960s, it was the world’s fourth-largest inland sea. Now it is just a fraction of its former size. |
| Nile River | the world’s longest river at 4,160 miles. The Nile Delta and the fertile land along the river’s banks gave birth to one of the world’s earliest civilizations. |
| Tigris River | Known by ancient peoples as Mesopotamia, Greek for “land between two rivers,”; eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia |
| Euphrates River | one of the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which mainly flows through Iraq |
| Sahara | the largest desert in the world at around 3.5 mil square miles |
| Rub’ al-Khali | has the largest area of sand in the region |
| Kara-Kum | Nomadic herds of sheep, goats, and camels graze on brush in Central asia |
| Gulf of Aqaba | the gulf i east of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian peninsula |
| Strait of Hormuz | a strait between the gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf |
| Aswan High Dam | a dam built across the Nile at egypt |
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