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32 Cards in this Set
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Absolute Location |
Provides a definite locate a place. |
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Relative Location |
Describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places. |
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Region |
An area that is shared by one or more than one characteristic |
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Formal |
Designafed by official boundries |
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Functional |
Defined by connections or government |
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Perceived/Vernacular |
Based on opinions and stereo types |
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Place |
Human and physical characteristics |
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Sunni |
Majority of Islams; Four caliphs are rightful successors of Muhammad |
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Shi'a |
Minority of Islams; Successors are descendants of Muhammad |
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Caliph |
Successor of deputy in Muslim governement |
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Sharia |
Body of law governing Muslims |
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Theocracy |
Form of government in which a religious leader is the states supreme civil ruler |
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Monarchy |
Hereditary right to rule as head of state |
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Dictatorship |
Self appointed form of government ruled by an individual |
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Socialism |
Production and distribution controlled by the people |
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Communism |
Single party holds absolute power |
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Democracy |
Actual governing is carried out by the people |
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Sultan |
Overlord or one with power |
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Janissaries |
Elite force of 30,000 loyal only to the sultan |
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Mandate system |
Legal status of transferring territories following a war |
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Geopolitics |
A foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands. |
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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. |
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Colonialism |
The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people. |
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Decolonization |
The undoing of colonialism - to release from the control or governing of a colony. |
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Palestine Liberation Organization |
An organization dedicated to the establishment of an independent state for Palestinians in the middle east. |
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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. |
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Intifada |
Palestinian campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip. |
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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 |
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Embargo |
Partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country or a group of countries. |
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Terrorism |
The political belief that extreme and seemingly random violence will destabilize a government and permit the terrorists to gain political advantage. |
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Isolationism |
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs of interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. |
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Interventionism |
A policy of non-defensive activity undertaken by a nation state or other political jurisdiction, to minipulate an economy or society |
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