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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
People who flee their country due to their country's internal conflict
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NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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EU
European Union, a political and economic government that has no military imvolvment
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Monarchy
A government that is ruled by royalty
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Infrastructure
The buildings, roads and systems that help a city run
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Subsistence farming
Farming only enough to produce for your self
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Sharia
Way or path (Islam religion)
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Alluvial plain
Flat landform that is created from by the deposition of multiple rivers flowing from high lands
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Geologist
Person who studies the Earth
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Guest workers
When people from foreign countries come to work in a country but don't live there permanently
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Right to return
Being allowed to come back to your country
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Fertility rate
The amount of children a woman has during child bearing years
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Hydrocarbons
Fossil fuels, mainly oil
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Strategic commodity
A commodity that is so valuable that countries fight over
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Desalinization
Taking the salt out of salt water to use for other things
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Christianity
One of the major religions in the Middle East, belief in one God, Jesus is the Son of God
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Judaism
One of the major religion in the Middle East, doesn't believe Jesus is the son of God
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Arab Spring
Where revolutions sprouted out of the Middle East
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Terrorism
A group of people that want to bring fear to another group of people by force or violence
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Tribalism
Being apart of a tribe
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Human resources
Using people for manual labor
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Polygamy
Marrying more than one person
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Monsoons
Seasonal winds
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Cyclone
Hurricane in the Indian Ocean
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Surge
A strong wave coming out of the sea
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Estuary
The part of a river than meets/ spans out to open into the ocean
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Caste
A specific category you are out in by the government determined by your economic status
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Karma
The belief that everything we do will have a positive or negative consequence
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Reincarnation
The belief in dying and being born again into something that reflects your past life
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Dharma
Religious law, especially Hinduism or Buddhism
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Himalayas
Created from the constant collision of the Asian and Indian tectonic plate
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Peninsula
A piece of land that surrounded by water on three sides
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Islam
The religion that believes in the teachings of Muhammad
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Colonialism
Where a major country uses a developing countries resources for their own gain
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Partitioning
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
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
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
Investing in infrastructure for the country
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Summer Monsoon
Warm and wet winds coming up from south
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Winter monsoon
Cold and dry winds coming down from north
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Effects of monsoon seasons
Summer-warmer temperature, more rain | Winter-colder temperature, less rain
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Indus River
The river said to be the start of civilization
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Ganges River
The biggest river in India, polluted but said to be cleaned and controlled by Mata Ganges
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Brahmaputra River
Where it joins with the Ganges in Bangladesh
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Aryan people/culture
Aryans were lighter skinned and came from Central Asia, created the caste system
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Caste system
The organization of people based on their economic status and skin color
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Islamic states in South Asia
Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Microcredit
Small loans available to poor entrepreneurs
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Enterporneuer
A Perron who creates or builds a business
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Threats to food production problems
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
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
When a husband stages his wife's death just so he can get another wife with a better dowry
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Kashmir
The northern region of India and Pakistan
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Nonviolent resistance
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
Scientists introduce new farming techniques that ultimately cause more problems
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Sherpa
A group of people being led by a tour guide in Nepal

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