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Middle East Vocab
North Africa, Southwest and Central Asia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| basic urban needs such as streets and housing | Infrastructure |
| to take wild plants and animals and adapt them to make food, clothing, or transportation | Domesticate |
| Sumerian writing system using wedge-shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets | Cuneiform |
| pictures and symbols signifying words and sounds | hieroglyphics |
| person believed to be a messenager from God | Prophet |
| a ban on trade | Embargo |
| suitable for growing crops | Arable |
| an underground lake/water source | Aquifer |
| process of changing saltwater into freshwater | desalination |
| goods produced for sale | Commodity |
| month of fasting (no foods/liquids while the sun is out) | Ramadan |
| belief in one god | Monotheism |
| trade route connecting China with the Mediterranean Sea | Silk Road |
| radical Muslim group of terrorists that were in control of Afghanistan | The Taliban |
| belief that ethnic group have a right to their own independent country | Nationalism |