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migration
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A change in residence intended to be permanent.
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Pull factors
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Positive conditions that effectively attract people to new localtions
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Push factors
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Negative conditions that induce people to leave their home and migrate some place new
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nomadism
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Movement among a definite set of places
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transhumance
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A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures
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guest workers
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Legal immigrant who has a work visa
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refugees
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People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country
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quotas
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Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year
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language families
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Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin
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standard language
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the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life
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dialects
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Local or regional characteristics of a language.
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isogloss
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seperate places of diff uses of language
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lingua franca
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tongue spoken in mediterranean ports; common language
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toponyms
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Place name
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monotheistic
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one God
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polytheistic
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many gods
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Universalizing religions
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seeking converts, find it in diff countries
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ethnic religion
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focus on one ethnic group doesnt try to recruit
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Hinduism
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One of the oldest religions in the modern world believes in many gods
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Hinduism's 3 major gods
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Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva
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caste system
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The strict social segregation of people
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Islam
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The youngest of the major world religions, Islam is based on the teachings of Muhammad
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5 pillars
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1. declaration of faith
2. prayer 5x toward mecca 3. alms giving 4. ramadan - fasting 5. haj - pilgrimage to mecca atleast once in life |
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koran
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mohammed's disciples wrote muslims follow this; holy book
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Mecca
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cultral hearth - muslims pray to - mohammed was born here
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crusades
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atempt to protect christian routes to the holy land. they slaughtered muslims but were defeated in the end.
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pilgrimage
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Voluntary travel to a sacred site
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Indonesia
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largest muslim population
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Sunni
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leadership is elected
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Shiite
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leadership direct line from mohamed
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ganges
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river considered sacred and holy to muslims they bathe in it.
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Political geography
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A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization.
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state
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A politically organized territory that is recognized by the international community.
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nation
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a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes.
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centripetal
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Forces that tend to unify a country -> <-
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centrifugal
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Forces that tend to divide a country <- ->
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Devolution
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process by which regions within a state demand and gain political strength
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multinational state
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State with more than one nation within its borders
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stateless nations
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Nation that does not have a state (Kurds)
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land locked
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country is surrounded by land
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