Unit 8 Definitions
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Alluvial Soil | Rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water.
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| Wadis | Streambeds that remain dry until a heavy rain.
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| Phosphate | A chemical used in fertilizers.
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| Oasis | A place in the desert where underground water surfaces.
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| Pastoralism | The raising and grazing of livestock.
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| Ethnic Diversity | Differences among groups based on their languages, customs, and beliefs.
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| Infrastructure | Basic urban necessities.
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| Domesticate | To take plants and animals from the wild and make them useful to people.
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| Culture Hearth | Centers where cultures developed and from which ideas and tradition spread outward.
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| Cuneiform | Wedge-shaped symbols written on wet clay tablets that were then baked to harden them.
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| Hieroglyphics | Egyptian form of picture writing.
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| Monotheism | Belief in one God.
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| Prophet | Messenger.
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| Mosque | A house of worship where Muslims pray.
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| Nationalism | Belief in the right in an ethnic group to have its own independent country.
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| Nationalize | Place under government control.
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| Embargo | A ban on trade.
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| Ziggurat | Large mud-brick temples shaped like pyramids and rose above the flat landscape.
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| Bedouin | Desert nomads.
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| Bazaar | Traditional marketplace.
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| Arable | Land that is suitable for farming.
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| Commodity | Economic good.
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| Petrochemical | Product derived from petroleum or natural gas.
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| Gross Domestic Product(GDP) | The value of goods and services produced by a country in a year.
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| Hajj | Pilgrimage
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