geography vocab
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- cataract
- descent of water over step surface
- imperialism
- extending the rule of an empire etc.
- renaissance
- forms and treatment of art.
- cultural diffusion
- ideas, etc. spread from one culture to another
- christianity
- the belief in jesus
- republic
- state in which supreme power is held in the hands of citizens
- leach
- dissolve are soluble
- apartheid
- rigid policy of segration
- Islam
- religious faith in muslims
- peninsula
- area of land almost completly surrounded by water, all except one side.
- siesmic
- of the nature of-caused by and earthquake of vibration
- chapparal
- dense growth of shrubs and small trees
- judaism
- monotheistic religion on the jews
- wadis
- dry riverbed containing water only when raining
- savanna
- plain, scattered grasslands
- pastrolism
- herding as the primary economic activity
- alluvial soil deposits
- fine grained fertile soul
- just war theory
- rules/regulations of the war
- fuedalism
- a fuedal system
- justinian code
- made german laws more modern.(updated them)
- sikhism
- religion & practices of the sikhs.
- Universal sufferage
- extension of the right to vote
- urbanization
- moving from a rural area to the city
- tribe
- local division of aboriginal people
- oasis
- small, fetile, green area, usually desert region
- terrorism
- use of violence or force to intimidate
- polders
- area of low lieing land
- ethnic group
- pertaining to or characters of a group
- fjord
- long, narrow, arm of sea. bordered by steep cliffs
- faults
- cracks in the earth
- blood diamond
- diamon that is taken that's take over and fought over
- middle passage
- part of atlantic ocean slave trade route
- crusades
- time of spreading of religious views and other ideas.
- magna cart
- laws regaurding rights and liberties
- monotheism
- the belief in only one god
- cold war
- intense exonomical, political conflicts etc.
- strait
- narrow passagewar of water entering into 2 larger bodies of water
- globaliztion
- the spead of knowledge and other things etc.
- outsourcing
- purchase good from a outside provider
- welfare state
- when people's need are associated with govt.
- geneva convention
- established rules for humane treatment