Diversity Amid Globalization Chapter 7 Keyterms

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Brain drain

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brightest young people leave for better jobs in western Europe

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culture hearth

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lots of cultures in one region

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domestication

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were plants and animals are purposely selected and bred for their desirable characteristics

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exotic rivers

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transport water and nutrients from distant, more humid lands, into drier regions

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Fertile Crescent

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ecologically diverse zone that stretches from the Levant land throught northern Syria into Iraq

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fossil water

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water supplies stored underground

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Hajj

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religous pilgrimage for Islam

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hydropolitics

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interplay of water resource issues and politics

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Islamic fundamentalism

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advocating a return to more traditional practices within the Muslim region

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Islamism

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challenges the encroachment of global popular culture and blames colonial, imperial, and Western elements for their problems

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kibbutzes

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collectively worked settlements that produce grain, vegetable, and orchard crops

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Levant

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eastern Mediterranean region

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Maghreb

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includes nations of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia and is dominated near the Mediterranean coastline by the Atlas mountains

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medina

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walled urban core

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monotheism

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a belief in one God

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OPEC

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these countries profoundly influence global prices and production trargets for petroleum

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Ottoman Empire

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included southeastern Europe and most of southwest Asia and North Africa

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Palestinian Authority

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government of Palestine

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pastoral nomadism

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traditional form of subsistence agriculture in which practitioners depend on the seasonal movement of livestock

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physiological density

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number of people per unit of of arable land

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qanat system

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tapping into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels

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Quran

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a book of revelations received by Muhammad from Allah

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Shiites

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favor passing on power within Muhammad's own family

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Suez Canal

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links the Mediterranean and Red seas

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Sunnis

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advocate passing power down through the established clergy

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theocratic state

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where religious leaders guide policy

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transhumance

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the seasonal movement of animals between wet-season and dry-season pastures