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Absolute Location

Provides a definite locate a place.

Relative Location

Describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places.

Region

An area that is shared by one or more than one characteristic

Formal

Designafed by official boundries

Functional

Defined by connections or government

Perceived/Vernacular

Based on opinions and stereo types

Place

Human and physical characteristics

Sunni

Majority of Islams; Four caliphs are rightful successors of Muhammad

Shi'a

Minority of Islams; Successors are descendants of Muhammad

Caliph

Successor of deputy in Muslim governement

Sharia

Body of law governing Muslims

Theocracy

Form of government in which a religious leader is the states supreme civil ruler

Monarchy

Hereditary right to rule as head of state

Dictatorship

Self appointed form of government ruled by an individual

Socialism

Production and distribution controlled by the people

Communism

Single party holds absolute power

Democracy

Actual governing is carried out by the people

Sultan

Overlord or one with power

Janissaries

Elite force of 30,000 loyal only to the sultan

Mandate system

Legal status of transferring territories following a war

Geopolitics

A foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands.

Crimean War

A conflict lasting from 1853 to 1856, in which the ottoman empire, with the aid of Britain and France, halted Russian expansion in region of black sea.

Colonialism

The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.

Decolonization

The undoing of colonialism - to release from the control or governing of a colony.

Palestine Liberation Organization

An organization dedicated to the establishment of an independent state for Palestinians in the middle east.

Camp David Accords

First signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country, in which Egyptian president Anwar Sadat recognized Israel as a legitimate state and Israeli prime minister Begin agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to egypt.

Intifada

Palestinian campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip.

Oslo Peace Accords

An agreement in 1993 in which the Israeli prime minister rabin granted Palestinian self rule in the gaza strip and west bank

Embargo

Partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country or a group of countries.

Terrorism

The political belief that extreme and seemingly random violence will destabilize a government and permit the terrorists to gain political advantage.

Isolationism

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs of interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Interventionism

A policy of non-defensive activity undertaken by a nation state or other political jurisdiction, to minipulate an economy or society