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21 Cards in this Set
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delta |
an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river |
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silt |
small particles of rich soil |
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wadi |
a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert |
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erg |
a large area of sand |
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nomad |
a person who lives by moving from place to place to follow and hunt herds of migrating animals or to lead herds of grazing animals to fresh pasture |
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phosphate |
a chemical salt used to make fertilizer |
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aquifer |
an underground layer of rock through which water flows |
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pharaoh |
the name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt |
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myrrh |
a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times |
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hieroglyphics |
the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words |
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convert |
to change from one thing to another |
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monotheism |
the belief in one god |
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caliph |
the successor to Muhammad |
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regime |
a government |
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fundamentalist |
a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws |
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civil war |
a fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government |
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souk |
a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries |
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fellaheen |
the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land |
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couscous |
a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking |
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diversified |
increased variety to achieve a balance |
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constitution |
a document setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of people in a country |
