vocab

Delta

• In Egypt, a system by which water and silt were controlled by embankments and time-

  released to irrigate farmlands.

• land formed by soil in the water that is dropped as the river slows and enters the sea

• Egyptian peasant.

• an open air market; a street lined with shops and stalls.

Fellaheen

• a market in an Arab community.

• a large group of merchants who join together to travel in safety.

• a natural or artificial lake used to collect water for human needs.

• Egyptian peasant.

Bazaars

• an open air market; a street lined with shops and stalls.

• a dividing ridge between two basins.

• an area of lakes, creeks, and swamps away from the ocean.

• an irrigation system that provides necessary water to the land throughout the year.

Basin irrigation

• an irrigation system that provides necessary water to the land throughout the year.

• the old section of a North African city usually centered around a mosque

• In Egypt, a system by which water and silt were controlled by embankments and time-

  released to irrigate farmlands.

• an area of lakes, creeks, and swamps away from the ocean.

Reservoir

• the belief that respecting and honoring one’s ancestors will cause them to live on in

  the spirit world after death

• a person who flees his or her country to escape danger or unfair treatment.

• wealth in form of money or property owned or used in business.

• a natural or artificial lake used to collect water for human needs.

Perennial irrigation

• Egyptian peasant.

• an irrigation system that provides necessary water to the land throughout the year.

• an area of lakes, creeks, and swamps away from the ocean.

• the belief that respecting and honoring one’s ancestors will cause them to live on in

  the spirit world after death.

Capita

• wealth in form of money or property owned or used in business.

• a natural or artificial lake used to collect water for human needs.

• food for grazing animals.

• transformation of arable land into desert either naturally or through human

  intervention.

Wadi

• the belief that respecting and honoring one’s ancestors will cause them to live on in

  the spirit world after death.

• the sudden overthrow of a ruler or government, often involving violent force or the threat of

  force.

• a person who flees his or her country to escape danger or unfair treatment.

• a usually dry riverbed or gully that temporarily hold water from a sudden downpour.

Caravans

• the practice of farming a site until the soil is exhausted, then moving on to a new

  site.

• a market in an Arab community.

• wealth in form of money or property owned or used in business.

• a large group of merchants who join together to travel in safety.

Medinas

• a usually dry riverbed or gully that temporarily hold water from a sudden downpour.

• the old section of a North African city usually centered around a mosque

• the process of stripping the land of its trees.

• transformation of arable land into desert either naturally or through human

  intervention.