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32 Cards in this Set
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Migration of the best educated people from developing countries to develop nations where economic opportunities are greater. What is this "migration" called?
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The Brain Drain
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An area of historical cultural innovation is called ____.
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Culture Hearth
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The purposeful selection and breeding of wild plants and animals for cultural purposes is called _____.
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Domestication
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A river that issues from a humid area and flows into a dry area otherwise lacking streams is called an _____.
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Exotic River
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An Islamic religious pilgramage to Makkah. One of the 5 essential pillars of the Muslim creed to be undertaken once in life, if an individual is physically and financially able to do it.
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Hajj
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The interplay of water resource issues and politics is called ____.
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Hydropolitics
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A movement within both the Shiit and Sunni Muslim traditions to return to a more conservative, religious-based society and state. Often associated with a rejection of Western culture and with a political aim to merge civic and religious autority.
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Islamic Fundamentalism
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(ask Mr. Powell)
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Islamism
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kibbutzes
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Collective farms in Israel
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The Eastern Mediterranean region
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Levant
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A region in Northwestern Africa, including portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
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Maghreb
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The original urban core of a traditional Islamic city
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medina
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A religious belief in a single God
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monotheism
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An international organization of 12 oil producing nations (formed in 1960) that attempts to influence global prices and supplies of oil. Algeria, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lybia, Nigeria, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Venezuela are all members.
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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A large Turkish- based empire (named for Osman, one of its founders) that dominated large portions of southeastern Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries.
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Ottoman Empire
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A quasi- governmental body that represents Palestinian interests in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Palestinian Authority
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A traditional subsistence agricultural system in which practitioners depend on the seasonal movements of live stock with marginal natrual enviornments.
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Pastoral Nomadism
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A population staistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land.
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Physiological Density
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During the period of global Western imperialism, a state or other political entity that remained autonomous but sacrificed its foreign affairs to an imperial power in exchange for "protection" from other imperial powers
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Protectorate
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A traditional system of gravity fed irrigation that uses gently sloping tunnels to capture ground water and direct it to needed fields
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Qanat System
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A book of devine revelations recieved by the prophet Muhammad that serves as a holy txt in the religion of Islam.
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Quran (Koran)
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Muslims who practice 1 of the 2 main branches of Islam; especially dominant in Iran and nearby southern Iraq
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Shiites
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Pivotal waterway connecting the red sea and the Mediterrannean opened by the British in 1869
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Suez Cannal
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Muslims who practice the dominant branch of Islam
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Sunnis
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A political state led by religious authorities
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Theocratic State
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A form of pastoralism in which animals are taken to high- altiude pastures during the summer months and then returned to low- altitude pastures during the winter
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Transhumance
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A book of devine revelations recieved by the prophet Muhammad that serves as a holy txt in the religion of Islam.
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Quran (Koran)
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Muslims who practice 1 of the 2 main branches of Islam; especially dominant in Iran and nearby southern Iraq
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Shiites
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Pivotal waterway connecting the red sea and the Mediterrannean opened by the British in 1869
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Suez Cannal
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Muslims who practice the dominant branch of Islam
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Sunnis
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A political state led by religious authorities
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Theocratic State
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A form of pastoralism in which animals are taken to high- altiude pastures during the summer months and then returned to low- altitude pastures during the winter
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Transhumance
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