NASWA key terms
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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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| show | The process of spreading and adopting a cultural element from its place of origin across a wider area.
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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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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | A national group that aspires to become a an independent state but lacks the territorial means to do so. Example: Iraq
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| show | A checkerboard-like spatial pattern of modernization in an emerging-market economy wherein a few localized regions of a country experience most of the development while the rest are largely unaffected.
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| show | Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of that faith and to influence state policy. Often called religious fundamentalism; but in the case of Islam, Muslims prefer the term revivalism.
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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 | 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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| 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. Example: The Sendero Luminoso in PERU
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| show | A country whose institutions have collapsed and in which anarchy prevails. Example: Syria
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| show | An imperial-scale Islamic government led by a caliph, considered a direct successor to the Prophet Muhammad, who rules and exerts moral authority over Muslims worldwide.
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| show | In the wake of the regime changes in the North Africa/Southwest Asia realm brought about by the “Arab Spring” of 2011, moderates have cited Turkey as the best model of democratic governance for this part of the world.
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| show | The relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges resulting from orographic precipitation, wherein moist air masses are forced to deposit most of their water content as they cross the highlands.
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