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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sahel | - means “shore of the desert” narrow band of dry grassland that runs east and west along edge of sahara desert |
| Nile River | - world's longest river |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | africa's highest mountain and volcanoes |
| Sahara | largest desert in the world |
| Cataracts | waterfall |
| Lake Tanganyika | longest freshwater lake in the world |
| Lake Victoria | africa’s largest lake |
| Aquifers | huge stores of underground water |
| Homo habilis | first human creatures to make stone tools |
| Rai | kind of music developed in 1920s by poor urban children |
| Cultural hearth | a place where ideas and innovations come together to change a region |
| Islam | major cultural and religious influence in north america |
| Olduvai Gorge | sigh of fossil beds contained the most continuous known record of humanity |
| Sankranti | celebrates the end of the year’s harvest |
| Apartheid | complete saparation of the races |
| Vimbuza | a dance performed by healers who wish to cure people of sickness |
| Black gold | oil |
| “Gift of the Nile” | ancient greek historian herodotus remarked in the fifth century b.c. egypt |
| Jordan river | provides one of the most precious resources in the entire region - water was a natural boundary between israel and jordan |
| Anatolian Peninsula | is occupied by the county of Turkey and it marks the beginning of the Asian continent |
| Lake Kinneret | means Sea of Galilee |
| Dead Sea | a landlocked salt lake between israel and jordan the lowest place on the exposed crust of the earth |
| Wadis | are riverbeds that remain dry except during the rainy seasons |
| Fertile Crescent | ancient river valley civilization in a larger area where everal river valley civilizations were supported |
| Arabian Peninsula | most distinctive landform of southwest Asia |
| Bedouins | Nomadic desert dwellers |
| Bazaars | traditional market place |
| Saddam Hussein | leader of iraq |
| Ramadan | holy month muslims do not eat or drink anything between sunrise and sunset |
| ‘Id al-Fitr | marks the end of Ramadan |
| Osama bin Laden | founder of al-Qaeda |
| Taliban | fundamentalist muslim politcail group |
| Zionism | movment to create and support a jews homeland in palestine |
| 3 holy cities of islam | Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem |
| 2 branches of islam | Sunni, Shi’ite |
| founder of islam | Muhammad |
| god of islam | Allah |
| islam place of worship | Mosque |
| Mt. Everest | World's tallest mountain. |
| Archipelago | Set of closely grouped islands, more than 1,000 small islands. |
| Monsoons | Seasonal winds. |
| Ganges River | Most well known of all South Asian rivers. |
| Cyclone | A violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain. |
| Varanasi | One of the most sacred sites on the Ganges river.. |
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