Chapter 18 Vocabulary
Ethnic Diversity: differences among groups of people based on their origins, languages, customs, or beliefs.
Infrastructure: the basic urban necessities like streets and utilities.
Domesticate: to adapt plants and animals from the wild to make them useful too people.
Culture Hearth: a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outwards.
Cuneiform: Sumerian writing system using wedged shapes and symbols pressed into clay tablets.
Hieroglyph: Egyptian writing system using pictures and symbols to represent words or sounds.
Quant: underground canal used in water systems of ancient Persians.
Monotheism: belief in one God.
Prophet: person believed to be a messenger from God.
Mosque: is Islam, a house of public worship.
Nationalism: belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation.
Nationalize: to place a company or industry under government control.
Embargo: a ban on Trade.
Ziggurat: large step-like temple of mud brick built in ancient Mesopotamia.
Bedouin: member of the nomadic desert people of North Africa and Southwest Africa.
Bazaar: a traditional marketplace ranging from a single street of stalls to an entire district.