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AP* EDITION|THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE: A GLOBAL HISTORY CHAPTER 13 Larger Concept Section Review Vocabulary Terms Details TROPICAL LANDS AND PEOPLES The Tropical Environment -The environment of tropical Africa and Asia is governed by wind patterns across oceans and the resulting rainfall -Deserts and rain forests mark the extreme climate variations in these regions, while mountain ranges produce further variations Ibn Battuta-Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time Tropics-equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn Monsoon-seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean waters