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chapter 15
north africa
Term | Definition |
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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 |