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Buddhism
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A religion that originated in India about 500 B.C.
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Islam
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The religious faith of Muslims including belief in Allah as the sole deity and in Muhammad as his prophet.
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Taoism
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Philosophy based on the book of Tao te Ching and the teachings of Lao-Tzu.
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Confucianism
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a movement based on the teachings of Confucius
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Judaism
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The monotheistic religion of the Jews
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Hinduism
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dominant religion of India
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Pillars of Islam
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Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting, and Pilgrimage
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Population Density
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the number of people living per sq. mile
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Urbanization
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the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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Push-Pull Factors
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Push factor pushes people from where they live, and pull factor pulls people into a new town.
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Immigrant
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A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another
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Migration
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The moving from place to place
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Rate of Natural Increase
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birthrate
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the number of live births per 1,000 of the population per year
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Mortality rate
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the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population per year
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Population Pyramid
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Recession
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The act of restoring possession to a former owner
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Deforestation
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To cut down and clear away the trees or forests from
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Longitude Lines
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Vertical lines on map telling distance from east to west
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Latitude Lines
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horizontal lines on map; tell distance from north to south
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Equator
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The horizontal line that splits the earth in half (northern hemisphere/ southern hemisphere)
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Political map
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map that shows political divisions (ie~states, countries, etc.)
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Physical Map
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map that shows physical features. (ie~ mountains, rivers, etc.)
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Absolute Location
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exact location of a place on earth (use longitude and latitude for this)
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Relative location
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where a place is relative to another place. (ex: the library is by sonic)
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Animism
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The belief in the existence of spiritual beings
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Polytheism
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The worship of or belief in more than one god.
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Theocracy
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a government ruled by or subject to religious authority
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dictatorship
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Absolute or despotic control or power
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Democracy
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Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives
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Monarchy
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country governed by a monarch (king or queen)
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Communism
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A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy
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Pandemic
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Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population (Ex: AIDS)
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Apartheid
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A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups
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AIDS
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a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system
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Chernobyl
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a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant
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Ethnic Group
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people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
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Nation-state
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A political unit consisting of an autonomous state inhabited predominantly by a people sharing a common culture, history, and language.
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Dialect
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Economy
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Careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor
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Economic System
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the system of production and distribution and consumption
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Polygamy
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The condition or practice of having more than one spouse at one time
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Caste System
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the Aryan system of social classes in India.
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Acculturation
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the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
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One Child Policy
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In china, they are overpopulated, so the one child policy says that they could only have one child
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Rai
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a kind of music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children. The music is fast paced and contains elements of popular Western music.
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Yurts
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A circular, domed, portable tent used by nomadic peoples of central Asia
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Anti-Semitism
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Discrimination against Jews.
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Sweatshop
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A shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.
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