Geo Ch 21 North Africa
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fellahin | peasant farmers |
| Reg | gravel covered plain |
| Hieroglyphs | pictures and symbols used in an Egyptian writing system |
| Fes | Moroccan city that includes a famous medina |
| Pharaohs | Ancient Egyptian rules |
| Wadis | dry streambed |
| Erg | sea of sand in the desert |
| Silt | fertile finely ground soil |
| Fishing | Very important to Morocco which is the world's largest exporter of Sardines |
| Cairo | capital of Egypt and largest urban area in North Africa |
| Answan High Dam | built on the Nile River to prevent flooding, has led to an increase in the amount of silt deposits |
| Suez Canal | connects the Mediterranean to Red Sea, built by Great Britain after they took control of Egypt in 1882 |
| Harmattan | hot dry wind that sweeps across the Sahara |
| Tangier | free port in Morocco |
| Libya | only country in North Africa in which farming is not important |
| Free port | port in which few taxes are placed on goods from other countries |
| Bedouins | desert nomads living along the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt |
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