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History 7.2
World regional patterns: A Survey
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allah | the Moslem name for God |
| atheism | the belief that there is no God |
| Buddhism | an eastern religion |
| caliph | a Moslem ruler |
| capitalism | an economic system in which private individuals or groups of individuals own land, factories, and other means of production |
| caste | a Hindu social level |
| communism | an economic and political system in which most or all property is owned by the state and is theoretically shared by all |
| evolution | the belief that all present forms of life developed from a few simple forms billions of years ago |
| Fertile Crescent | a fertile area in the Near East extending from the Tigris-Euphrates valley to the Jordan valley |
| fetish | an object or thing which is believed to have magical powers to help or harm depending on what is wanted |
| fundamentalist | one who believes in the absule truth of a religio |
| Hinduism | an eastern religion from India |
| humanism | the concept that man is the only important reality |
| imam | a Mslem scholar, a leader among certain groups in Islam |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land, with water on both sides of it, connecting two larger bodies of land |
| Judaism | the religion of the Jews based in the teachings found in the Old Testament |
| jungle | a very wet tropical region |
| karma | a Hindu teaching or belief that says one is reborn into a higher or lower existence based on how one lived in the previous existance |
| Koran | the holy book of the Moslems |
| melanin | a dark pigment found in the skin and hair |
| Moslem | a follower of Islam |
| Nirvana | the Buddhist idea of a heavenly peace or condition |
| Panama Canal | a man-made waterway that separates North America and South America |
| pantheism | the belief that God is in everything; that all things hold a piece of God who is the total of all of the things |
| pantheon | all the gods of a people or ethnic group |
| permafrost | area of soil beneath the surface that is permanently frozen in polar and near polar areas |
| plains | a flat grassland of the humid middle latitude |
| plague | a very dangerous disease that spreads rapidly and often causes death |
| polygamy | the practice of having more than one wife at one time |
| polytheism | the worship of more than one god, usually many |
| proletariat | the class of industrial workers who must earn their living by their labor because they do not have the means to go into business for themselves |
| rain forest | a very wet tropical region |
| reincarnation | the rebirth into another life on this earth after death |
| savanna | a flat grassland of the tropics |
| Shintoism | the national religion of Japan |
| steppe | a flat grassland of the humid middle latitudes |
| tundra | a treeless plain of the polar regions |
| utopia | a place of social or political perfection |
| voodoo | a religion that includes the use of magic and sorcery |
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