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- maghreb
- a region in north western africa including portions of moroco tunisia and algeria
- domestication
- the purpouseful selections and breading of wild plants and animals for cultural purposes
- OPEC(org of petrolium exporing countries)
- an international organization of 12 oil producing countries(forumed in 1960) that attempts to influance global prices and supllies of oil. algeria gabon indonisia iran iraq kuwait libiya nigeria qatar saudi arabia uae and veninzuela
- brain drain
- migration of the best educated people from developing countries to developed nations where economic oportunities are grater
- kibbutzes
- colective farms in isreal
- islamism
- a political movement within the religion of islam that challenges the encroachment of global popular culture and blames colonial imperial and western elements for many of the religious problem. adhernts of islamism advocate merging civil and religous athority
- palistinian authority
- a quasi gov't body that represents palestinian intrest in the west bank and gaza
- hydropolitics
- the interplay of water resourse issues and polotics
- monotheism
- a religious belief in a single god
- theocratic state
- a political state led by religious authoriteis also cald theocracy
- transhumance
- a form of pastorialism in which animals are take to high-altitude pastures during summer monthes and return to lower in winter months
- fossil water
- water supplies that were stored underground during wetter climate
- shiites
- muslims that practice one of the two main branches of islam especially dominet in iran and south iraq
- physiological densities
- a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land
- sunnis
- muslims that practice the dominiat form of islam
- ottoman empire
- a large turkish based empire ( named for osmon one of the founder) that dominated large portions of southeastern europe and north africa southwest asia between 16th and 19th centries
- pastoral nomadism
- a traditional subsistence agricultural system in which practiceners depend on seasonal movements of live stock with in marginal natrual enviroments
- medina
- the original urban core of a traditional islamic city
- haji
- an islaomic religious pilgramige to mekkah one of five essential pillares of muslim creed to be undertaken once in life if an individual is phisicaly and finacialy able to do it
- exotic rivers
- a river that issues from a humid area and flows into dry area outherwise lacking streams
- qanat system
- a traditional system of gravity-fed irrigation that uses gently sloping tunles to capture ground water and direst it to needed feilds
- culture hearth
- an area of historical cultural inovation
- fertile creasent
- an ecologically diverse zone of lands in soutwest asia that extends from lebanon eastward to iraq and that is often associated with early forms of agricultural domestication
- quran
- a book of divine revelations recived by the prophate muhommad that serves as a holly text in the religion of islam
- suez cannal
- pivitole waterway connecting the red sea and the mediteranian open by the british in 1869
- levant
- the eastern mediterranean region
- islamic funamentalism
- a movement between both the shitie and sunni muslim traditions to return to a more conservative religious based society and state often associated with a rejection of western culture and with a political aim to merge civic and religious authority