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chapter 15
north africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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