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chapter 15
north africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oasis | fertile place with water in a dry desert area |
| Irrigation | process of redirecting water to crops through channels and ditches |
| Nonrenewable | cant reproduce quick enough to keep up with its use |
| petroleum | raw materials used to produce oil |
| Desertification | gradual transformation from fertile to less productive land |
| silt | fine particles of soil deposited along riverbanks |
| Qanat | human made underground tunnel on the Iranian plateau used for carrying water from the mountains |
| alluvial plain | flat area of land next to a stream of a river that floods |
| Arid | very dry having almost no rainfall |
| fault | fracture in earths crust |
| cultural health | center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread |
| city state | independent state made up of a city and the territories depending on it |
| diffusion | spreading out |
| cuneiform | earliest known form of writing from sumeria |
| religious tolerance | acceptance of different religions to be practiced at the same time without prejudice |
| momotheistic | religious belief in 1 God or deity |
| messiah | leader or savior |
| agricultural revolution | period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants |
| adherent | follower of a religion cause or person |
| domesticate | to keep and use as a source of labor and food |
| sultan | leader of the ottoman empire |
| sarcophagus | coffin |
| pyamid | stone monument built as a tomb in ancient egypt |
| hydroelectric power | course of energy that uses flowing water to make electricity |
| hieroglyphics | ancient system of writing that uses pictures and symbols |
| dynasty | series of rulers from the same family |
| tomb | burial place |
| pharoh | king in ancient egypt |
| deity | God or goddess |
| papyrus | paper like material invented in egypt |
| flood plain | low lying land next to rivers formed by sediment left by flooding |