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Chapter 21, 22, and 23 Vocabulary

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Agriculture revolution   The change from nomadic hunting and gathering to farming that took place about 8000 B.C.  
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Civilization   An advanced culture  
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Monothesm   The belief in one god.  
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Protectorates   An area that has its own government but is controlled by an outside power.  
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Poaching   Illegal hunting .  
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chaparral   A type of natural vegetation  
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Mosques   An Islam place of religious worship.  
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Muezzin   In Islam, a crier who calls the the faithful to prayer five times each day from a minaret.  
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Minaret   A tall, slender tower attached to a mosque.  
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Desalination   The process of removing salt from seawater is it can be fro drinking water .  
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Nomads   A person who travels from place to place.  
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Trade deficit   The situation in which a country imports more than it exports.  
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Trade surplus   The situation in which a country exports more than it imports.  
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Autonomy   Independence  
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Genocide   The symptomatic killing or intentional destruction of a people  
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Nationalism   Pride in one one's nation  
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Chernozem   A rich top soil that is found in the Russian steppes  
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Fundamentalism   A set of religious beliefs passed on a strict interpretation of a scared text.  
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Yurt   A round tent made of wooden frame work and covered with felt or skins.  
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Desertification   The transformation of arable land into desert either naturally or through human intervention.  
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Mandate   Referred to land to be governed by an outside power on behalf of the league of Nations until it was ready for independence.  
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Self-determination   The right to decide their own political future.  
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Zionists   After the hill in Jerusalem to which Jews had always prayed to return.  
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