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The vocabulary words and definitions for Chapter 9 at ISD.
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A source of energy that uses flowing water to produce electricity.
Hydroelectric Power
Regulate
Dynasty
Pyramids
2
An independent state made up of a city and the territories depending on it.
Messiah
City-State
Desertification
Adherents
3
A leader or savior.
Pharaohs
Extent
Messiah
Sultan
4
Related to a religious belief in one god.
Monotheistic
Petroleum
Oasis
Domesticate
5
The distance or degree to which something spreads.
Extent
Deities
Sarcophagus
Arid
6
The process of redirecting water to crops through channels and ditches.
Irrigation
Messiah
Petrolium
City-State
7
Very dry
, having almost no rainfall.
Irrigation
Silt
Fault
Arid
8
Earliest known form of writing, from Sumeria.
Hieroglyphics
Pharaohs
Tomb
Cuneiform
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Center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread.
Pharaohs
Cultural Hearth
Hieroglyphics
Reliable
10
A gradual transition from fertile to less productive land.
Desertification
Oasis
Qanats
Alluvial Plain
11
The acceptance of different religions to be practiced at the same time, without prejudice.
Religious Tolerance
Agricultural Revolution
Hydroelectric Power
Cultural Hearth
12
A fracture in the Earth's crust.
Sultans
Domesticate
Fault
Pilgrimage
13
The low-lying land next to rivers, formed mainly by sediment that has been left by flooding.
Alluvial Plain
Floodplain
Fault
Silt
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A coffin.
Nonrenewable
Reliable
Sarcophagus
Tombs
15
A series of rulers from the same family
Diffusion
Dynasty
Tombs
Adherents
16
A paper-like material invented in ancient Egypt.
Pilgrimage
Papyrus
City-State
Oasis
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An ancient system of writing that uses pictures and symbols.
Desertification
Monotheistic
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
18
Dependable or trustworthy.
Reliable
Irrigation
Cultural Hearth
Monothestic
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A flat area of land next to a stream or river that floods.
Silt
Extent
Adherents
Alluvial Plain
20
Spreading out.
Regulate
Diffusion
Extent
Reliable
21
A period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants.
Irrigation
Floodplain
City-State
Agricultural Revolution
22
A burial place.
Irrigation
Tombs
Arid
Sarcophagus
23
Cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep up with its use.
Dynasty
Papyrus
Nonrenewable
Arid
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To control.
Qanats
Regulate
Papyrus
Extent
25
A God or Goddess.
Tombs
Messiah
Deities
Sultan
26
A follower of a religion, cause or person.
Sultan
Silt
Messiah
Adherent
27
Fine particles of soil deposited along riverbanks.
Floodplain
Tombs
Regulate
Silt
28
Raw material used to produce oil.
Petroleum
Cuneiform
Nonrenewable
Diffusion
29
A leader or ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
Messiah
Tombs
Sultans
Pharaohs
30
A fertile place with water in a dry desert area.
Deities
Pyramids
Oasis
Sarcophagus
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A stone monument built as a tomb in ancient Egypt.
Pyramid
Floodplain
Silt
Hydroelectric Power
32
To keep and use animals as a source of labor and food.
Monotheistic
Domesticate
Pilgrimage
Diffusion
33
A king in ancient Egypt.
Pharaoh
Dynasty
Sultan
Messiah
34
Human made underground tunnel on the Iranian Plateau used for carrying water from the mountains
Agricultural Revolution
Qanats
Religious Tolerance
Hydroelectric Power
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A religious journey.
Cultural Hearth
Irrigation
Qanats
Pilgrimage
