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a. Obtain: to gain or acquire
b. Ziggurat: a large temple built by the Sumerians.
c. Cultural Hearth: a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward.
d. Qanat: an underground canal first build by the ancient Persians.
e. Embargo: a ban on trade
f. Cuneiform: wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets.
g. Natural boundary: a boundary created by a physical feature, such as a mountain, river, or strait.
h. Participate: to take part in
Democracy, or power by the people. This was founded in Ancient Greece and is still used today.
<span>The Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation was intended to fight back against the Protestant Reformation: to reform and strengthen the Catholic Church against this great Protestant threat, partly by purging itself of the corruption and quesitonable practices that had given rise to the Proetstant Reformation in the first place. </span>
