Terms and Definitions Flashcards

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Territoriality

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Territoriality is a term associated with nonverbal communication that refers to how people use space (territory) to communicate ownership or occupancy of areas and possessions.

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Largest Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) group.

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Population engineering along the border Turkey: Turkification Internal pacification Armenians and Kurds were cast as enemies of the state and settled along the border with Turkey to solidify it Border politics: settling Turkmens and objecting to France settling “undesirables” (Armenians and Kurds) along the border French-Syria France wanted to suppress Arab nationalism The refugee issue No Syrian people were involved in the negotiations The governments were manipulating populations for their own ends Turkey purposely de-stabilized the border so they could intervene in the border and justify themselves

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Foreign forces (nine kingdoms)

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An Islamist group that emerged in the 1980s and is not part of the PLO and diminished the power of the PLO as they gained power.

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This treaty changed the Syria–Turkey border set by the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres to the benefit of Turkey, ceding it large areas of the Aleppo and Adana vilayets.

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The victory of the king over Egypt’s enemies was represented through different images, such as: (1) The king smiting his enemies, an image that appeared in the Naqada II period and was carved on the walls of Egyptian temples until the Graeco-Roman period. In the depiction, the king wielded a mace in his raised right hand and seized the hair of the enemies with his other hand;

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Largest Palestinian territory

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Bodies affect borders and bodies make borders and territory

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State run by royal decree (usually male) Administration by districts and bureaucrats Agrarian economy directed by the state Most land is tenant farmed State-controlled labor (people owed labor to the state) State is mainly insular and inward-looking during Old Kingdom, but branches a bit outwards in New Kingdom Egypt extraordinary in its lifespan as a state

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* Boundary: physical (river, mountains, etc.); more fixed (a wall) * Border: zones; more ambiguous, fluid, porous, and complex

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Cosmology and religion were at the core of Egyptian society and guided everything from the pharoah to the perception of the physical world around them. Particularly, the concepts of Ma'at and Izfet guide the perception of Egyptian identities (Ma'at) and foreign identities (Izfet). Duality was essential both to the ideological construction of the state and to Egyptian understand of the functioning of the cosmos

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Borders as paradoxical; Borders as sites of encounter, contestation, and resistance; Borders in motion - Borders are increasingly militarized, but borders are becoming more and more easily crossed. (paradoxical borders)

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Turkification was the construction of a Turkish ethnic identity to legitimize its own existence Ideal was ethnically ‘Turk’ and Muslim Confiscating minority properties and forcing out minorities who were born in Turkey

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Amun-Ra was the chief of the Egyptian gods. In the early days of Egyptian civilization, he was worshipped as two separate gods. Amun was the god who created the universe. Ra was the god of the sun and light, who traveled across the sky every day in a burning boat.

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Crossing of bodies across borders, borders being affected by bodies, frontiers, etc.

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“The landscape is the material discourse of contesting notions of what constitutes the urban, and who belongs in the nation, mediating the interchange between dominant and minority identities, and between memory and practice in memory and urban life”

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Kingdom to the south of Egypt

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Unique zones of states where cultures interact away from the cores of each state and form a unique region/

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Nostalgia for a time in Turkish history that didn't exist, longing for a purely ethnically Turkish Kuzguncuk and Mahalle that never existed as the minorities made it was it was.

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Kingdom to the northwest of Egypt

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An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.

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Social memory is the way people perceive themselves in response to a sense of belonging within a group with a common culture.

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An ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.

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the authority of a state to govern itself or another state

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the smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number. In context of ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.

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Hadrian’s wall was an assertion of political division that did not truly separate the people around it; created funnel points of crossing and interaction. Rare instance of state border using physical wall on a border.

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A nation state is a political unit where the state and nation are congruent. It is a more precise concept than "country", since a country does not need to have a predominant ethnic group

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Old multiethnic neighborhoods in Turkey that are looked back on with a sense of nostalgia due to things like tight-knit communities and green spaces.

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Ma’at and King’s dominance and power is usually depicted in art as a force of physical domination and violence See smiting and violence in art in almost every era of Egypt Literal depiction of domination of foreign peoples Egyptians dominate other in order to maintain right rule and maintain Ma’at Foreigners were hierarchically organized and ideologically useful to the establishment of authority and its justification

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A political ideology that puts a particular nation's priorities over international concerns.

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Neighborhood at the center of Mahalle nostalgia and editing of the landscape to cover up the minorities and their influences that made the neighborhood what it was in the first place. Major victim of gentrification in modern time. * 1942 anti-minority Property Tax * 1955 anti-Greek riots * 1964 deportation of Greeks * 1974 Cyprus conflict

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The site of a major battle between the Egyptians and Hittites which was portrayed in a battle scene showing the Egyptians as strong and valiant and the Hittites as weak and chaotic.

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Sense of unity on the national level whether that be through religion, ethnicity, or simply nationality.

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Very difficult to obtain asylum and visas, and bordering practices are violent and strict (especially on the US-Mexico border)

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Climate - Land defined by the Nile River and its floods. Geography - Egypt was the green part of Nile, the border zones were ambiguously part of Egypt, The Western Desert, Fayyum Depression (seasonal lake), The Delta, The Eastern Desert, The Oases (none in eastern desert) Economy - Egypt was very wealthy from agricultural yield (Wheat, barley, flax, papyrus), Animal Life was abundant Mineral Resources were plentiful

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The Treaty of Sèvres was a 1920 treaty signed between the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire. The treaty ceded large parts of Ottoman territory to France, the United Kingdom, Greece and Italy, as well as creating large occupation zones within the Ottoman Empire.

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The Treaty of Lausanne led to the international recognition of the sovereignty of the new Republic of Turkey as the successor state of the Ottoman Empire. As result of the Treaty, the Ottoman public debt was divided between Turkey and the countries which emerged from the former Ottoman Empire.