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Ch. 15 Sect. 2 Vocab
Southwest Asia & North Africa Geography & History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cultural hearth | center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread |
| agricultural revolution | a period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants |
| domesticate | to keep and use animals as a source of labor and food |
| city-state | an independent state made up o a city and the territories depending on it |
| cuneiform | the earliest known form of writing, from Sumeria |
| monotheistic | related to a religious belief in one god |
| messiah | a leader or savior |
| pilgrimage | a religious journey |
| diffusion | a spreading out |
| adherent | a follower of a religion cause; or person |
| sultan | a leader or ruler of the Ottoman Empire |
| religious tolerance | the acceptance of different religions to be practiced at the same time, without prejudice |