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Cultural geography   show
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show heartland, source area, or innovation center; place of origin of a major culture  
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show the process of spreading and adopting a cultural element from its place of origin across a wider area  
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Cultural landscape   show
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Hydraulic civilization theory   show
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Spatial diffusion   show
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Relocation diffusion   show
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Stateless nation   show
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show a checkerboard-like spatial pattern of modernization in an emerging-market economy where a few localized regions of a country experience most of the development while the rest are largely unaffected  
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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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show religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of that faith and to influence state policy  
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show a doctrine within Islam that is commonly translated as holy war and entails a personal or collective struggle on the part of Muslims to live up to the religious standards prescribed by the Quran  
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show the belief that political destabilization in one state can result in the collapse of order in a neighboring state, triggering a chain of events that, in turn, can affect a series of contiguous states  
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Insurgent state   show
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show a country whose institutions have collapsed and in which anarchy prevails (an example would be Syria)  
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Caliphate   show
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show a multi-party democracy that has a place for, but is not dominated by, Islamic political parties  
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show the relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges resulting from orographic precipitation, where moist air masses are forced to deposit most of their water content as they cross the highlands  
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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  
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