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72 Cards in this Set
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dialect |
the form of a spoken language peculiar to a certain region. Example: Cockney and English
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aboriginal |
the first known inhabitants of Australia
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clan |
a group of families claiming descent from a common ancester
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semi-nomandic |
people who have no permanent home but moving about constantly
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lore |
learning especially of a traditonal nature; telling stories like the Aboriginals
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affinity |
close relationship; a likeness implying common origin
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millennia |
a thousand years
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didgeridoos |
see google
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reserve |
land set apart
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heritage |
tradition
handed down from one's ancesters or the past |
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didgeridoos
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wind instrument used by Aboriginals in Australia; describe as a natural wooden trumpet
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semi-nomadic
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one of a people whose living habitsare largely involved moving around, but plan some crops
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eugenics
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the movement devoted to improving the human species by controlling heredity
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terra nulllius
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land belonging to no one; the Aboriginees believed that the land belonged to no one
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detrimental
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harmful; dangerous
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atavism
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the reappearance of a characteristic after several generations of absense
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squatter
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to settle on unoccupied land without legal claim
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Maori
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native population of New Zealand
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tenuous
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having little substance
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palaeolithic
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About 2.5 million -3 million years ago about 12 BC; the period of the emergenc eof the primitive man
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racism
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the belief that race acccounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others
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spirituality
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the state, quality, manner or fact of believing in a higher being
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legacy
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something handed down from an ancestry or from the past
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eradicate
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to tear up from the roots; get rid of
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Stolen Generations
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half caste aboriginees who were taken from the parents
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mourning
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the actions or expressions of one who has suffered a loss of something or death of person
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Aboriginal
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the oldest surviving culture in the world; the original natives of Australia
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lore
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the meaning and transmission of a culture heritage
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reserves
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areas of land reserved by the Crown for Aboriginal people in the 19th century. Much of the land was take away from them
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Terra nullius
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a concept in interional law meaning "a territoy belonging to no-one' or over which no one claims ownership
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dominion |
to control or exercise control; sovereignty
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integral |
essential or necessary for completeness; entire
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stations |
living areas established by government s for Aboriginal people won which managers and matrons controlled ( and cared for) indigienos people
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reparations |
compensation or renumeration to make amends; or compension after a war.
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dispossessed |
spiritually dispossessed or alienated;
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ID
Zionism |
Israel
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reconciliation |
the act of resolving or settling something
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half-cast |
Part aboriginal and part European or Chinese
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ID
Yasser Arafat |
Arab
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Ataturk
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Arab
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Zionism |
Israel
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Yasser Arafat |
Arab
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Mustafa Kemal |
Arab
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David Ben-Gurion |
Israel
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Gamal Abdel Nasser |
Arab
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Six Days War |
Israel
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October War |
Arabs
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Alfred Dreyfus |
US/Europe
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Theodore Hertzl |
Israel
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The Great Satan |
Arab
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intifada |
Arab
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Truman Doctrine |
US/Europe
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May 15, 1948 |
Arab
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Suez Crisis |
US/Europe
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anti-Semitism |
US/Europe
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Balfour Declaration |
US/Europe
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PLO |
Arab
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Arthur Balfour |
US/Europe
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Kristallnacht |
US/Europe
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Reza Pahlavi
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Arab
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Yitzhak Rabin |
Israel
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The 1991 Gulf War |
Arab
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pogrom |
US/Europe
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Heinrich Himmler |
US/Europe
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Shah Reza Khan |
Arab
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Huda Shaarawi |
Arab
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Tehran |
Arab
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OPEC |
Arab
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SOCAL |
US/Europe
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"Sweep them into the sea" |
Arab
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The Lesser Satan |
Arab
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May 14, 1948 |
Israel
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