Review Vocabulary

Key Vocabulary and Concepts

• Commodity: A valuable substance that can be bought or sold, such as oil or grain.

  • Valuable commodity: A particularly important or rare resource.

• Grid: An organized system, like a road or energy network.

• Tremendous: Extremely large or impressive.

• To pinpoint: To identify or locate something with precision.

• For instance: Used to introduce an example.

• As a shrine: Like a place of worship or religious center.

• Shrine: A place associated with religious worship.

• Ingenuity: The quality of being clever, original, and inventive.

• Foresightedness: The ability to predict the future and plan accordingly.

• Relatively modest towns: Towns that are small in size or importance.

• Might have emerged: A hypothesis about something that may have happened in the past.

• Edge: A competitive advantage or a boundary.

• Demand: The desire and ability to purchase a product.

• Apparently: As far as one can tell.

• Prosperous life: A life with a high standard of living.

• Magnet: Something that attracts people (e.g., a city).

• Emerges: Appears or becomes visible.

• Necessitate: To make something necessary.

• The thriving: A process of active growth and development.

• Wealth: An abundance of resources or money.

• Coerce: To force someone through the use of threats.

• Rival: A competitor or opponent.

• A competitive edge over its neighbors: A superior position in the market or economy compared to others.

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• Readily : Easily accessible.

• Sophisticated : People who create complex tools.

• Obtained by access to exotic goods: Resources gained through trade with other regions.

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• Irrigation: A system of watering for agriculture.

• Introductory: Serving as an introduction.

• The demise: The end or downfall.

• Alterations: Changes in forms or structure.

• Extinct: No longer in existence.

• Shallow seaways: Shallow bodies of water between land masses.

• Dissatisfaction: A feeling of discontent.

• Extinction: The complete disappearance of a species.

• Abruptly: Suddenly or unexpectedly.