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Absolute Location |
Provides a definite reference to locate a place. latitude/longitude,address,township/range system |
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Relative location |
describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other place |
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Region |
an area that is united by or shares more than one characteristic |
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Formal |
designated by official boundries, population,climate, or other facts. |
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Functional |
defined by their connections of government. all controlled by a central office and share a similar infrastructure. |
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Percieved/Vernacular |
based on opinions or perceptions of an area. |
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Place |
describes the human characteristics of a location |
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Sunni |
A majority sect or branch of Islam that acknowledges the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of muhammad |
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Shi'a |
Another sect of Islam who acknowledges Ali and his decendents as the only rightful successors of muhammad |
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Caliph |
means "successor" or "Deputy" of the supreme political and religious leader in muslim government |
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Shari'a |
a body of law governing the lives of muslims |
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Theocracy |
form of government in which a religious leader is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler |
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Monarcy |
from of government in which an individuals has the hereditary right to rule as head as state, sometimes esp, back in day with absolute power |
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dictatorship |
a self appointed form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, without hereditary ascension |
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Socialism |
political theory in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles |
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Communism |
form of government in which a single, usually totalitarian, party holds power, and the state controls the economy |
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Democracy |
form of government in which actual governing is carried out bu the people governed, or the power to do is granted by them. |
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Sultan |
"Over lord" or "One with Power" |
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Janissaries |
elite force of 30,000 soilders trained to be loyal only to the sultan |
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mandate system |
legal status of transferring territories from one country to another 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 Britian and France, halted russian expansion in the region of the 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 palestanians in the middle east |
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Camp David Accords |
First signed agreement between Isreal and an Arab country in which egyptian president anwar sadat recognized isreal as a legitimate state and isreali prime minister begin agreed to return the sinai peninsula to egypt |
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Intifada |
Palestanian 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 isreal prime minister rabin granted palestinian self-rule in the Gaza strip and the west bank |
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Embargo |
partial or complete prohibition of commema 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 advantages |
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Isolationism |
a policy of remaining apart from the affair or intrest of other groups expesically the political affairs of other countries |
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Interventionalism |
a policy of non-defense activity undertaken by a nation-state, or other political juridation to manipulate an economy or society |
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