World Geograph
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- Qanat
- underground canal used in water systems of ancient Persians
- Mosque
- in Islam, a house of public worship
- Domesticate
- to adapt plants and animals from the wild to make them useful to people
- Egypt
- Cairo
- Libya
- Tripoli
- Tunisia
- Tunis
- Hieroglyphics
- egyptian writing system using pictures and symbols to represent words or sounds
- Bazaar
- a traditional marketplace ranging from a single street of stalls to an entire city district
- Prophet
- person believed to be a messenger from God
- Embargo
- a ban on trade
- Bedouin
- member of the nomadic desert peoples of north Africa and Southwest Asia
- Nationalism
- belief in the right of each people to be an independant nation
- Culture Hearth
- a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward
- Ziggurat
- large step like temple of mud brick built in ancient Mesopotamia
- Infrastructure
- The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
- Monotheism
- belief in one God
- Morroco
- Rabat
- South Africa
- Cape Town
- Ethnic Diversity
- Differences among groups of people based on their origins, languages, customs, or beliefs
- Cuneiform
- sumerian writing system using wedge shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets
- Algeria
- Algiers