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chapter 15 vocab
North Africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oasis. | A fertile place with water in a dry desert area. |
| Irrigation. | The process of reading water crops through channels and ditches. |
| Nonrenewable. | Cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep up with its use. |
| Petroleum. | Raw materials used to produce oli. |
| Desertification. | A gradual transformation from fertile to less productive land. |
| Silt. | Fine particles of soil deposited along riverbanks. |
| Qanat. | A human-made underground tunnel on the Iranian,plateau, used for carrying water from 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 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 know from of writing,from Sumeria. |
| Religious Tolerance. | The acceptance of different 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. | 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's uses pictures and symbols. |
| Dynasty. | A series of rulers from 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. |
| Floorplain. | The low-lying land next to rivers,formed by sediment left by flooding. |