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chapter 15
north africa
Term | Definition |
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Oasis | A fertile place with water 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 produced oil |
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 lranian 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 | 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 known form 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 religious,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 |