Chapter 6 Vocabulary
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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 forms and artifacts sequentially placed on the natural landscape by the activities of various human occupants. By this, the physical landscape is modified into the cultural landscape, forming an interacting unity between the two.
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| show | The spatial spreading or dissemination of a culture element (such as a technological innovation) or some other phenomenon (e.g., a disease outbreak).
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| Expansion diffusion | show 🗑
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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 | 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 | 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 | A negative consequence of an action, which countries try to minimize. Ethiopia’s new dam on the Blue Nile is deliberately situated just upstream from the Sudan border in order to minimize reduced water flow and silt entrapment within Ethiopian territory.
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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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| Environmental determinism | show 🗑
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