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chapter 15
North Africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A fertile place with water in a dry desert area | Oasis |
| The process of redirecting water to crops through channels and ditches | irrigation |
| cannot reproduce quickly enough enough to keep up with its use | nonrenewable |
| raw materials used to produce oil | petroleum |
| a gradual transformation from fertile to less | desertification |
| fine particles of soil deposited along riverbanks | silt |
| a human - made underground tunnel on the Iranian plateau used for carrying water from the mountains | Qantas |
| flat area of land next to a stream of river that floods | alluvial plain |
| very dry having almost no rainfall | arid |
| fracture in Earth's crust | fault |
| center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread | cultural hearth |
| an independent state made up of a city and the territories depending on it | city-state |
| spreading out | diffusion |
| the earliest known form of writing from Sumeria | cuneiform |
| the acceptance of different religions to be practiced at the same time without prejudice | religious tolerance |
| related to a religious belief in one god or deity | monotheistic |
| a leader or savior | messiah |
| a period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants | Agricultural revolution |