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Chapter 15
North Africa
Term | Definition |
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Oasis | A fertile place in a dry desert area. |
Irrigation | The process of redirecting water to crops through channels and ditches. |
Nonrenewable | Cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep up with its use. |
Petroleum | Raw materials used to produce oil. |
Desertification | A gradual transformation from fertile to less productive land. |
Silt | Fine particles of soil deposited along river banks. |
Qanat | A 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 river that floods. |
Arid | Very dry, having almost no rainfall. |
Fault | Fractures in the earth's crust. |
Cultural hearth | Center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread. |
City-state | An independent state made up of a city and the territories depending on it. |
Diffusion | Spreading out. |
Cuneiform | The earliest known form of writing, from Sumeria. |
Religious tolerance | The acceptance of difference religions to be practiced at the same time, without prejudice. |
Monotheistic | Related to a religious belief in one god or deity. |
Messiah | A leader or savior. |
Agricultural revolution | A 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 animals as a source of labor and food. |
Sultan | A leader or ruler of the Ottoman Empire. |
Pilgrimage | A religious journey. |
Sarcophagus | Coffin. |
Pyramid | A stone monument built as a tomb in ancient Egypt. |
Hydroelectric power | A source of energy that uses flowing water to produce electricity. |
Hieroglyphics | An ancient system of writing that uses pictures and symbols. |
Dynasty | A series of rulers in the same family. |
Tomb | A burial place. |
Pharaoh | A king in Egypt. |
Deity | A god or goddess. |
Papyrus | A paper-like material invented in ancient Egypt. |
Floodplain | The low-lying land nest to rivers, formed by sediment left by flooding. |