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Unit 7 Vocab Flashcards

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Wadis

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A river that is dry except during time periods of rainfall

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Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia

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Area of land that is arable, in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, ranges from the east coast of Israel to south Turkey

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Domestication

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To take or use for personal gain; to make something become more familiar or ordinary

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Monotheistic

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Religion that believes in only one God

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Diaspora

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Movement of a group (racial, ethnic, religious) out of an area

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Zionism

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A group of people that have no territory to call home so they are technically called a stateless nation

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Theocratic

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Government that is run by a religious leader and enforces religious laws

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Secular

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Government that is ran separately from religion

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Byzantine Empire

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Hard core Muslim extremists

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Ottoman Empire

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Turks that created an empire out of the remains of the Eastern Roman Empire

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Protectorate

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Where a weak state uses a stronger state for protection

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Egalitarian

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Believing in the principle that all people should be given equal rights and opportunities

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Privatized

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When a business transfers from public to private

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Autocratic

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A ruler who rules by himself

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Hamas

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A Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization

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Intifada

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Uprising or revolution

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OPEC

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Organization of Petroleum in Exporting Countries, organization that controls all of the Middle East’s oil

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Assassinated

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Being murdered

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PLO

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Palestinian Liberation Organization

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Bedouins

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People who live on the Arabian Peninsula

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Stateless nation

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A group of people who don’t have political borderlines around their territory

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Revenue

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Income of a country

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Diversification

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A wide variety of commodities for a country

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Europeanization/Westernization

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Where a country is invaded by European/Western culture and is forced to assimilate or acculturate

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Refugees

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People who flee their country due to their country’s internal conflict

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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EU

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European Union, a political and economic government that has no military imvolvment

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Monarchy

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A government that is ruled by royalty

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Infrastructure

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The buildings, roads and systems that help a city run

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Subsistence farming

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Farming only enough to produce for your self

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Sharia

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Way or path (Islam religion)

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Alluvial plain

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Flat landform that is created from by the deposition of multiple rivers flowing from high lands

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Geologist

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Person who studies the Earth

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Guest workers

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When people from foreign countries come to work in a country but don’t live there permanently

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Right to return

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Being allowed to come back to your country

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Fertility rate

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The amount of children a woman has during child bearing years

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Hydrocarbons

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Fossil fuels, mainly oil

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Strategic commodity

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A commodity that is so valuable that countries fight over

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Desalinization

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Taking the salt out of salt water to use for other things

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Christianity

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One of the major religions in the Middle East, belief in one God, Jesus is the Son of God

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Judaism

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One of the major religion in the Middle East, doesn’t believe Jesus is the son of God

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Arab Spring

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Where revolutions sprouted out of the Middle East

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Terrorism

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A group of people that want to bring fear to another group of people by force or violence

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Tribalism

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Being apart of a tribe

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Human resources

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Using people for manual labor

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Polygamy

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Marrying more than one person

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Monsoons

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Seasonal winds

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Cyclone

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Hurricane in the Indian Ocean

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Surge

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A strong wave coming out of the sea

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Estuary

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The part of a river than meets/ spans out to open into the ocean

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Caste

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A specific category you are out in by the government determined by your economic status

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Karma

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The belief that everything we do will have a positive or negative consequence

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Reincarnation

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The belief in dying and being born again into something that reflects your past life

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Dharma

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Religious law, especially Hinduism or Buddhism

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Himalayas

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Created from the constant collision of the Asian and Indian tectonic plate

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Peninsula

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A piece of land that surrounded by water on three sides

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Islam

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The religion that believes in the teachings of Muhammad

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Colonialism

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Where a major country uses a developing countries resources for their own gain

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Partitioning

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Creating political boundaries where ethnic groups are forded to live together causing ethnic tensions

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Purpose of Britain’s “dividing and ruling” tactics in South Asia

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To give the Muslims (major religion) land of its own, for Britain to take the natural resources for themselves

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Reasons for high population growth

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People are dying from poor infrastructure and so women are trying to repopulate the population

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Ways to lower rates of population growth

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Investing in infrastructure for the country

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Summer Monsoon

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Warm and wet winds coming up from south

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Winter monsoon

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Cold and dry winds coming down from north

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Effects of monsoon seasons

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Summer-warmer temperature, more rain

Winter-colder temperature, less rain

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Indus River

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The river said to be the start of civilization

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Ganges River

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The biggest river in India, polluted but said to be cleaned and controlled by Mata Ganges

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Brahmaputra River

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Where it joins with the Ganges in Bangladesh

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Aryan people/culture

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Aryans were lighter skinned and came from Central Asia, created the caste system

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Caste system

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The organization of people based on their economic status and skin color

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Islamic states in South Asia

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Pakistan and Afghanistan

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Microcredit

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Small loans available to poor entrepreneurs

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Enterporneuer

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A Perron who creates or builds a business

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Threats to food production problems

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There isn’t enough infrastructure that allows people to work in factories to make mass numbers of food to feed the hungry

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High birth rates in Pakistan

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Caused from people not investing in infrastructure that will help people, having more children to keep them from dying

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Dowry killing

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When a husband stages his wife’s death just so he can get another wife with a better dowry

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Kashmir

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The northern region of India and Pakistan

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Nonviolent resistance

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A way of resisting by not doing illegal things and showing kindness to their enemies in order to show how evil they are compared to them

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Green revolution

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Scientists introduce new farming techniques that ultimately cause more problems

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Sherpa

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A group of people being led by a tour guide in Nepal

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