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