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chapter 15
North america
Term | Definition |
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Oasis | a Fertile place with water in a dry desert area |
Irrigration | the process of redirecting eater to crops through channels and ditches |
Non-renewable | cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep usp with its use |
Petroleum | raw materials used to produce oil |
Deserification | a gradual transformation from fertile to less producive land |
slit | fine particles of soil deposited along riverbanks |
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 | fracture in earths crust |
pilgrimage | center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread |
city-state | an independent state made up of a city and the terrritores depending on it |
diffusion | spreading out |
cuneiform | the earliest known form of writing, from Sumeria |
religous | the acceptance of different religions to be practiced at the same time without prejudice |
Momotheistic | related to a religious belief in one god or deity |
messiah | a leader 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 ottoman empire |
cultrual | center of civilization from which ideas and technology |
sarcophagus | coffin |
pyramid | a stone monument built as a tomb in accident 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 from the same family |
tomb | a burial place |
pharaoh | a king in ancient Egypt |
deity | a god or goddess |
papyrus | a paper like material invented in ancient Egypt |
floor plain | the low lying land next to rivers formed by sediment left by flooding |