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| Plateau | a large flat area that rises above surrounding land; at least one side steep slope, the continent of Africa |
| Pennisula | an area of land surrounded by water like the country of Greece or Italy |
| Subcontinent | A large land mass smaller than the mainland, India for example |
| Cataract | a rock filled rapid, for example the Nile that makes it difficult to navigate. |
| Desertification | the change of fertile land into land that is too dry for crops, (Sahara) |
| Apartheid | A South African system in which racial groups were separated and there was legal racial descrimination |
| Escarpment | a steep cliff, could be several hundred feet, like the coast of Africa |
| Reincarnation | the hindu belief concerning the rebirth of the soul into the body of another living thing. |
| Polytheism | The belief in many Gods ( practiced by hindus, greeks, romans) |
| Monotheism | The belief in 1 God (Islam, Judaism, Christianity) |
| Prophet | a religious leader with the divine inspiration |
| pilgrimage | a religious journey, like the muslim journey to Mecca |
| Koran | the holy book of the islamic religion |
| karma | hindu concept, a cycle of death and rebirth where good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior is punished. |
| excommunicate | deprived of official church membership like the King John Medievil Europe |
| fast | to refrain from eating for religious cause |
| Discriminate | to treat people unfairly because of race, religion of gender |
| domesticate | to adapt wild palnts of animals for human use |
| Caste | a hindu social class of people normally found in India relating to job |
| Nomad | a person who moves around to make a living, usually by herding animals, trading, hunting or gathering food. |
| cummunism | a kind of government where there isn't any private ownership, all things controlled by the government |
| genocide | systematic killing of an entire group of people |
| Sovereignty | political independance |
| nationalize | to put private industry under national government control |
| Vassal | someone who pledged loyalty to a lord in return for a piece of land. |
| Feudal system | system of governement in which less powerful promise loyalty to more powerful people |
| samurai | the warrior class in Japenese feudalism that swore to obey their leader and obey a bushido |
| daimyo | the powerful estate owners in Japan who hired their own samurai warriors for protection and peasants to farm their land. |
