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Geography ch.4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oasis | underground water coming out for plants to grow. |
| Arid | dry region. |
| Wadis | stream beds, where torrents of water rush through at certain times. |
| Semi-arid | some-what dry, areas along the margins of an area. |
| Natural resources | not much water, oil, natural gas |
| Mountain range | Hindu kush |
| Plateau | Arabian Peninsula |
| Pass | Khyber Pass |
| Arabian Dessert | Very hot |
| Polytheism | belief in many "gods." |
| Monotheism | belief in one God. |
| Mesopotamia | Land between rivers |
| Tigras and Euphrates | Babylonions |
| Metrainian Sea | Pauls epistles |
| Red Sea | Mose's |
| Persian Gulf | oil |
| Irrigation | methods of bringing water to dry land. |
| Mesopotamia | people in the "land between rivers" settled down |
| Samaria | First Empire |
| Babylon | Major Empire |
| Ziggurats | large, pyramid like, temples |