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- potash
- a mineral used in explosives and fertilizers
- llano
- a grassy plain
- trade surplus
- the situation in which a country exports more than it imports
- joint family system
- in india the custom of housing all members of an extended family together.
- subsistence farming
- farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village
- fertile crescents
- a region in the Middle east where farming and the first civilizations developed
- land redistribution
- a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none.
- irrigation
- the watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers.
- alluvial plain
- a broad expanse of land alon riverbanks consisting of rich fertile soil left by floods
- partition
- a division into separate parts
- peninsula
- a strip of land that juts out into an ocean
- militia
- a citizen army
- falaj system
- in the Arabian Peninsula an ancient system of underground and surface canals
- bauxite
- a mineral used in making aluninum
- malnutrition
- disease caused by a lack of food or an unbalanced diet
- nomad
- a person who travels from place to place
- monotheism
- the belief in on God
- NAFT
- North american free trade agreement, which phased out trade barrier amon the united states canada and mexico
- ayatollah
- a religious leader among shiite muslims
- subcontinent
- a large landmass forming a distinct part of a continent
- mosque
- An Islamic place of religious worship
- reincarnation
- the belief that the soul of a human being or animal goes through a series of births and deaths and rebirths
- muezzin
- in Islam a crier who calls the faithful to prayer five times each day froma minaret
- mandate
- a commission from the league of Nations authorizing a nation to govern a territory
- zionist
- a member of a movement known as zionism founded to promote the establishment of an independent jewish state.
- sinkhole
- a hole formed when limestone is dissolved causeing the land above to collapse.
- nonviolent resistancei
- the policy of opposing an enemy or oppressor by any means other than violence
- sultanate
- a state ruled by a sultan
- latifundio
- a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company.
- monsoon
- a seasonal shift in the prvailing winds that influences large climate regions
- nonaligned nation
- a nation that adopted neutrality during the cold war
- GPD
- the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by the countrys total population.
- plateau
- An area of high flat land
- selva
- a forested region in ecuador Peru and Bolivia
- self determination
- the right of a people to decide their own political future
- agricultural revolution
- the change from nomadic hunting and gathering to farming that took place about 8000 bc
- anarchy
- political disorder and violence lawlessness
- estuary
- the wide mouth of a river where freshwater river currents meet salt water.
- buffer state
- a country that separates two hostile countries
- infrastructure
- the basic support facilities of a community or country such as roads and bridges power plants and school
- secular
- worldly not relating to religion
- gaucho
- a cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of argentina and uruguay
- shah
- the title of the former ruler of Iran
- nationalism
- pride in ones nation the desire of a cultural group to rule themselves as a separate nation
- altiplano
- a plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru