World Geography H: Chapter 6 Vocab: The North African/Southwest Asian Realm
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| show | The wide-ranging and comprehensive field of geography that studies spatial aspects of human cultures.
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| Culture hearth | show 🗑
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| Cultural diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The theory that cities which managed to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands held political power over other cities.
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| Spatial diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The spreading of an innovation or an idea through a fixed population in such a way that the number of those adopting it grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination.
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| show | Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they relocate to new areas. The most common form of relocation diffusion involves the spreading of innovations by a migrating population.
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| show | A national group that aspires to become a an independent state but lacks the territorial means to do so.
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| show | A narrowing of an international waterway causing marine-traffic congestion, requiring reduced speeds and/or sharp turns, and increasing the risk of collision as well as vulnerability to attack.
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| show | The process of removing dissolved salts from water, thereby producing fresh (drinking) water from seawater or brackish water.
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| Domino effect | show 🗑
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| Religious revivalism | show 🗑
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| show | A doctrine within Islam. Commonly translated as holy war, it entails a personal or collective struggle on the part of Muslims to live up to the religious standards prescribed by the Quran (Koran).
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| show | Territorial embodiment of a successful guerrilla movement. The establishment by antigovernment insurgents of a territorial base in which they exercise full control; thus a state within a state.
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| show | Farming technique devised by ancient Egyptians to trap the Nile’s annual floodwaters and their fertile silt by building fields with earthen ridges.
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| show | Part of Saudi Arabia’s plan for a new economic future as an industrial power rather than an oil producer. This U.S. $2 trillion fund will provide a major part of the financing for the transformation of the economy.
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| show | The southern border of the African Transition Zone that marks the religious frontier of the Muslim faith in its southward penetration of Subsaharan Africa (see Fig. 6-21).
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