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22 Cards in this Set
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cultural hearth
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An area of historical cultural innovation
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Islam
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The religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah
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Maghreb
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A region in northwestern Africa, including portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
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Monotheism
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A religious belief in a single God
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exotic river
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A river that issues from a humid area and flows into a dry area otherwise lacking streams.
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Judaism
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The monotheistic religion of the Jews, based on the laws revealed to Moses and recorded in the Torah
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levant
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The eastern Mediterranean region
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pastoral nomadism
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A traditional subsistence agricultural system in which practitioners depend on the seasonal movements of livestock within marginal natural environments.
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Fertile Crescent
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An ecologically diverse zone of lands in Southwest Asia that extends from Lebanon eastward to Iraq and that is often associated with early forms of agricultural domestication
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Christianity
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The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.
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Palestinian Authority
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A quasi-governmental body that represents Palestinian interests in the West Bank and Gaza
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Hajj
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An Islamic religious pilgrimage to Makkah. One of the five 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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Kibbutz
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Collective farms in Israel
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hydropolitics
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The interplay of water resource issue and politics
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Physiological density
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A population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land.
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OPEC
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An international organization of 12 oil producing nations that attempts to influence global prices and supplies of oil. Algeria, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Venezuela are members.
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Sunni
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Muslims who practice the dominant branch of Islam
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Shiite
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Muslims who practice one of the two main branches of Islam; especially dominate in ran and nearby southern Iraq
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Transhumance
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A form of pastoralism in which animals are taken to high-altitude pastures during the summer months and returned to low altitude pastures during the summer months and returned to low-altitude pastures during the winter.
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Islamic Fundamentalism
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A movement within both the Shitte and Sunni Muslim traditions to return to a more conservative, religious based society and state. Often associated wit rejection of Western culture and with political aim to merge civic and religions authority.
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British Mandate
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British controlling Palestine
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qanat system
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A traditional system of gravity fed irrigation that uses gently slopping tunnels to capture groundwater and direct it to needed fields
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