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Absolute Location |
Provides a definite reference to locate a place. The reference can be latitude and longitude, a street address, or even the township/ Range system |
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Relative Location |
Describes a place with respect to its enviorment and its connection to other places |
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Region |
An area that is united by or shares more than one characteristics |
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Formal (Type of Region) |
Designated bu official boundries, population, climate, or other facts |
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Functional (Type of Region) |
Defined bu their connections or government |
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Perceived/Vernacular (Type of Region) |
Based on opinions or perceptions of an area. No formal boundaries but more of an economic, political cultural, or even historical mental map of the world. |
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Place |
Describes the human characteristics, and physical, 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 (Minority) who acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the only rightful successors of Muhammad |
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Caliph |
Means "successor" or "deputy" the supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government |
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Shari'a |
A body of law that governs the lives of all 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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Monarchy |
Form of government in which an individual's has the heredity right to rue as head of state, sometimes, especially back in the day with full power |
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Dictatorship |
A (self appointed) form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator, without heredity 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 equality 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 the actual governing is carried out by the people governed (Direct democracy) or the power to do is so granted by them (as in the representative democracy) |
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Sultan |
"Overlord" or "One with power" |
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Janissaries |
Elite force of 30,000 soldiers 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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Geopolotics |
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 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 pelestinians in the middle east |
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Camp David Accords |
First signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country, in which Egyptions 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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Intifiada |
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 the 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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Terroism |
The political belief that extreme and seemingly random violence will destabilize a government and permit the terrorists to gain political adcantage |
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Isolationism |
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interest of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries |
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Interventionism |
A policy of non-defensive (Proactive) activity undertaken by a nation-state or other political jurisdiction to manipulate an economy or society |
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