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World Geo
Chapter 21, 22, and 23 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Agriculture revolution | The change from nomadic hunting and gathering to farming that took place about 8000 B.C. |
Civilization | An advanced culture |
Monothesm | The belief in one god. |
Protectorates | An area that has its own government but is controlled by an outside power. |
Poaching | Illegal hunting . |
chaparral | A type of natural vegetation |
Mosques | An Islam place of religious worship. |
Muezzin | In Islam, a crier who calls the the faithful to prayer five times each day from a minaret. |
Minaret | A tall, slender tower attached to a mosque. |
Desalination | The process of removing salt from seawater is it can be fro drinking water . |
Nomads | A person who travels from place to place. |
Trade deficit | The situation in which a country imports more than it exports. |
Trade surplus | The situation in which a country exports more than it imports. |
Autonomy | Independence |
Genocide | The symptomatic killing or intentional destruction of a people |
Nationalism | Pride in one one's nation |
Chernozem | A rich top soil that is found in the Russian steppes |
Fundamentalism | A set of religious beliefs passed on a strict interpretation of a scared text. |
Yurt | A round tent made of wooden frame work and covered with felt or skins. |
Desertification | The transformation of arable land into desert either naturally or through human intervention. |
Mandate | Referred to land to be governed by an outside power on behalf of the league of Nations until it was ready for independence. |
Self-determination | The right to decide their own political future. |
Zionists | After the hill in Jerusalem to which Jews had always prayed to return. |