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33 Cards in this Set
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Infrastructure |
a country's bassic support facilities such as roads, hospitals, schools, and communication system |
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Fellaheen |
Egyptain farmer \ |
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Wadi |
a dry riverbed that temporaily holds water from sudden down pours |
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Phosphate |
chemicals used in explosoives and fertilizers |
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Bazaar |
traditional Arab open-air market |
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Mandate |
territory placed temporaily under a country's control (as the U.K governed Palestine after World War 1) |
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Anarchy |
complete state of lawlessness |
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Desalination |
the process of removing salt from seawater so that it can be used for drinking and irregation |
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Zionism |
belif that the Jewish people should have their own homeland |
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Bedouin |
nomadic desert people of North Africa and the Middle East |
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Alluvial Soil |
rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water |
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Kum |
a dessert (ex: Kara Kum un Turkmenistan) |
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Erg |
sandy, dune covered area |
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Oasis |
a place in the dessert where undeground water surfaces |
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Pastoralism |
the raising and grazing of livestock |
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Cereals |
food grains such as barley, oats and wheats |
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Ethinic Diversity |
differences among groups based on their languages, customs and beliefs |
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Infrastructure |
basic urban necessities like streets and utilities (lights, water, phone) |
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Culture Hearths |
centers where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
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Cuneiform |
wedge-shaped symbols written on wet clay tablets that were then baked to harden them, created by ancient Sumerians |
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Hieroglyphics |
a form of picture writting invented by the ancient Egyptians |
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Monotheism |
belief in one God |
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Nationalism |
a belief in the right of an ethnic group to have it's own independent country |
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Nationalized |
when a company is placed under goverenment control (rather than privately owned) |
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Embargo |
a ban on trade with a country |
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Ziggurats |
large, mud-brick pyramids built by the ancient Sumerians |
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Arable |
land that is suitable for farming |
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Commodities |
economic goods that are bought and sold |
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Petrochemicals |
products derived from petroleum or natrural gas and used to make fertilzers, medicine, plastics, and paints |
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Hajj |
the Musilms pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
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Aquifiers |
underground layers of pouros rocks, gravel, or sand that contain water |
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Ayatollah |
religious leaders of the highest authority to Shia Muslims (especially in Iran) |
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Souk |
a market in an Arab community |
