Mid East Unit

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Absolute Location

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Provides a define reference to locate a place. Reference can be longitude or latitude, or street address.

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Relative Location

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describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places

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Region

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an area that is united by or shares more than one characteristic.

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Formal Region

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Designated by an offcial boundrie

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Functional Region

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Defined by their connections or government

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Preceived

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Based on opinions or perceptions of an area

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Place

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Describes the human characteristics( architecture, food, etc) physical, of a location

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Sunni

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a majority sect or branch of Islam that acknowledges the first 4 caliphs as the right of seccesors or Muhammed.

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Shi'a

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Another sect of Islam who acknowledges Ali and his decendants as the only rightful seccesors of muhammed

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Caliph

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Seccessor or deputy the sepreme political and religous leader in a muslim goverment

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Shariá

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a body of law governing the lives of muslims

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Theocracy

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Form of government in which a religous leader is recognized as the states supreme civil ruler

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Monarchy

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Form of government in which an individualś has the hereditery right to rule as head of state sometimes esp. back n the day without absolute power

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Dictatorship

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Form of the government in which the government is ruled by an idividual, the dictator without hereditary asension

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Socialisim

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Political theory in which the loans 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

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Form of government in which a single, usually totolitarian partly hads power and the states control power.

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Democracy

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Form of government which the actual governing is claimed out by the people governed or the power to do so is granted by them.

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sultan

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Overlords or one with power

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Janisaries

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the force of 30,000 soliders trained to be loyal only to sultan

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Mandate system

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Loyal statues of transferring territores from the country to another following war.

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geopolitics

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A forgien policy based on a consideration of the strategic location or products of other lands

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Crimean War

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a conflict lasting from 1853 to 1856 in which the ottoman empire with the aid of britian and france, halted russian, halted russian expansion in the region of the black sea.

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colonialism

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the control of governing of a nation over a dependent country territory or people.

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decolonization

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

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palestine liberation organizaton

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an organization dedicted to the establishment of an independent state for palestine in the middle east.

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camp david accords

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first signed agreement between between israel and arab country in which eygptain president amwar sadat recognized Israel prime minister, begin agrred to return to the sinai penisula to eygpt.

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Intifada

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Palestine compaign of civil desobedience against israeli occupation of the west banks and gaza strip

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Oslo peace accords

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an agreement in 1935 in which the israeli prime minister rabin granted palestine self rule in the gaza strip in west bank.

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embargo

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partial or complete prohibition of commerance and trade with a praticular country or a group of countries.

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Terroism

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the politcial belief that extreme and scemingly random violence will distabalize a goverment and permit the terrosit to gain political advantage

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isolationism

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a policy of remaining about from the affairs or intersect of other groups especially the political affairs of other countries

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Interventionism

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a policy of non-defense activity undertaken by a nation-state or other political juridiction to manipulate an economy or society.

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