Vocab 7

Question 1

Culture Hearth

Answer 1

An area of historical innovations

Question 2

Domestication

Answer 2

This occurs when plants and animals are purposefully selected and bred for their desirable characteristics

Question 3

Exotic Rivers

Answer 3

A river that issues from a humid area and flows into a dry area otherwise lacking streams

Question 4

Fossil Water

Answer 4

Water supplies stored underground during earlier and wetter climatic periods

Question 5

Hydropolitics

Answer 5

The interplay of water resource issues and politics

Question 6

Maghreb

Answer 6

In North Africa. the region including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia meaning “western land”

Question 7

Monotheism

Answer 7

Belief in one God

Question 8

OPEC

Answer 8

Organization of Petrol Exporting Countries. attempts to influence global process and supplies of Oil

Question 9

Ottoman Empire

Answer 9

A large Turkish empire that dominated large portions of southeastern Europe, North Africa, and southwest Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries

Question 10

Palestinian Authority

Answer 10

A quasi government body that represents Palestinian interests in the West Bank and Gaza in Israel

Question 11

Pastoral Nomadism

Answer 11

A traditional form of subsistence agriculture in which practitioners depend on the seasonal movement of livestock for a large part of their livelihood

Question 12

Shiites

Answer 12

Muslims that favor the passing of power within Mohammed’s family

Question 13

Suez Canal

Answer 13

A man made waterway that linked the Mediterranean to the Red Sea in 1869, engineered by the British

Question 14

Sunnis

Answer 14

Muslims that favor the passing on power through established clergy

Question 15

Theocratic State

Answer 15

A state in which religious leaders set and guide policy