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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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