Exam 2 review Chapter 7 key terms Flashcards
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Arab Spring
a series of public protests, strikes, and rebellions, often facilitated by social media, that have called for fundamental government and economic reforms
culture hearth
producing many new cultural ideas that subsequently diffused widely.
fertile Crescent
an ecologically diverse zone that stretches from the levant inland through the fertile hill country of northern syria into iraq.
fossil water
water supplies stored underground during earlier and wetter climatic periods, has been utilized.
Hajj
a religious pilgrimage
hydropolitics
the interplay of water resource issues and politics, has raised tensions between countries that share drainage basins.
islamic fundamentalism
in the religion advocates a return to more traditional practices within the islamic religion.
medina
a walled core dominated by the central mosque and its associated religious, educational, and administrative functions.
monotheism
belief in one god, a strong code of ethical conduct, and a powerful ethnic identity that continues to the present.
Organization of the petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)
found within the region, and these countries greatly influence global prices and production levels for petroleum.
Quaran
a book of teachings received by muhammad from allah, represents god’s highest religious and moral revelations to humanity.
Suez Canal
linked mediterranean and red seas in 1869
theocratic state
religious leaders shape government policy
universalizing religion
religions attempting to appeal to everyone regardless of culture and location
ethnic religion
identified closely with a specific ethnic, tribal, or national group.
secularism
people consider themselves either nonreligious or outright atheistic.
fundamentalism
a form of a religion, especially islam or protestant christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
