The best way to review for exam 2 is to:

• Look up everything on this study guide in the book or instructor notes.
• Write down the definitions of all words listed.
• You may need to use the index at the back of the textbook and the vocabulary links at the end of the instructor notes.
• Find all figures either in the textbook or instructor notes and read all you can about them.

Also:

• read the assigned readings (you may want to take notes)
• read the Instructor notes for each week
• learn the vocabulary !!!
• study the maps and figures in the textbook and instructor notes; there will be maps and figures on the exam
• review the Required Activities

This "review" page is intended to narrow your studying as you prepare for taking the exam or retake.

CONFLICTS

For the following conflicts know WHERE they are occurring and WHY they are occurring THERE (who is fighting whom and why). Know the locations on a map!

Unit 2 Conflicts Week 6 / Ch. 7: Ethnicity - Conflicts: Armenia/Azerbaijan/Nagorno-Karabach Georgia Chechnya Ethiopia/Eritrea Somalia Sudan civil war Sudan, Darfur Lebanon Kashmir (India/Pakistan) Sri Lanka former Yugoslavia Bosnia Kosovo Central Africa / Rwanda Week 7 / Ch. 8: Political Geography - Conflicts: Western Sahara (Sahrawi Republic) Korean War Timor-Leste (East Timor) Cyprus Al-Qaeda and the "War on Terror" Afghanistan Iraq Week 8 / Ch. 6: Religion - Conflicts: Northern Ireland Crusades Israel-Palestine Tibet Lebanon Week 9 / Ch. 5: Language - Conflicts Basque Nigeria

Locations of Unit 2 Conflicts:

WEEK 6 - ETHNICITY - Chapter 7

• Conflicts
  • Chechnya conflict (map)
  • Darfur conflict (map)
  • Kosovo conflict (map)
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (map)
  • conflict involving the Janjaweed (map)
  • Hutu/Tutsi conflict map
  • South Ossetia asnd Abkhazia conflict (map)
  • Sri Lanka conflict (map)
  • two conflicts in Sudan
  • Who fought whom in Sri Lanka?
  • Cause of the Lebanese Civil War
  • Cause of the breakup of Yugoslavia.
  • why are there so many conflicts in Africa? (see "Ethnic Cleansing in Central Africa")
  • Conflict in Africa and the boundaries of states (p. 232)

   

• Define
  • irredentism
  • nation
  • balkanization
  • Compare the terms:
    • nationality
    • nationalism
    • ethnicity
    • race
  • Define ethnic cleansing
  • What is Apartheid?
  • What is white flight?

• Textbook Figures
  • Distribution of ethnic groups in the US (figures 7-1, 7-2, 7-3, 7-4)
  • Triangular Slave Trade (fig. 7-8a)
  • fig 7-8b
  • Figure 7-10
  • Apartheid (figure 7-14)

• Other
  • Who (and where) are the Rohingya (discussed in the instructor notes)
  • Denmark as a nation-state
  • "Ethnic Competition to Dominate Nationality" (p. 224)
  • What is the "separate but equal" doctrine?
  • Right of self-determination
  • The largest proportion of Asian Americans are from what country?
  • What is the most numerous ethnic minority in the United States ?
  • The role of the tribe in African Society ("Ethnic Cleansing in Central Africa")

• Some of the Maps Seen in the Exams
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WEEK 7- POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY - Chapter 8

• Conflicts
  • Ethnic conflict in Timor-Leste (East Timor) (map)
  • Ethnic conflict involving Turkey and Greece (map)
  • Ethnic conflict between Sunni and Shi'ite (map)

• Define
  • "exclave" and locate one on a map.
  • "frontier" and locate one on a map.
  • "physical boundary" and locate one on a map.
  • Compare: frontier vs. boundary
  • "nation"
  • unitary state
  • federal state
  • colony
  • irredentism (locate likely area on a language map)

• Textbook Figures
  • Fertile Crescent, figure 8-6
  • Figure 8-14
  • Figure 8-11
  • Location of ethnic groups in Iraq (fig. 8-25)
  • Apartheid (fig 7-14)

   

• Other
  • unitary states and federal states (map)
  • NATO and Warsaw Pact (map)
  • Types of boundaries.
  • Likely location of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
  • Shapes of States (pp. 247-249)
  • Reasons for a federal state
  • The Versailles Conference and drawing state boundaries in Europe after WW I (p.252-253)
  • Types and examples of physical boundaries and cutural boundaries
  • One state or two?
    • Korea
    • China/Taiwan
  • Examples of political cooperation and economic cooperation
  • Terrorism vs. assassinations and political violence (p. 260)
  • Aozou Strip
  • What is the European Union?
  • Fertile Crescent
  • Caprivi Strip
  • The Kurds
  • colonialism
  • Mesopotamia
  • Nation-states and western Europe
  • Antarctica
  • The world's current most populous colony
  • Varying Sizes of States
  • Ceuta and Melilla

• Some of the Maps Seen in the Exams
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    Map for terms and locations

    

     

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WEEK 8 - RELIGION - Chapter 6

• Conflicts:
  • Catholic vs. Protestent
  • Christian vs. Muslim
  • Jews vs. Muslims
  • the Six Day war

   

• Define and Give Examples
  • universalizing religion
  • ethnic religion
  • branch
  • denomination
  • sect
  • cosmogony
  • monotheism
  • polytheism
  • hearth

• Textbook Figures
  • Figures 6-9 and 6-10
  • Israel, Gaza, West Bank, Golan Heights (map)
  • Figure 6-3 !!!
  • Figure 6-25
  • Figure 6-8

• Other
  • Diffusion of Islam
  • Religions: number of followers
  • Locations of the origin of the world's major religions (map)
  • The founding of major world religions: earliest to most recent (quick question)
  • five pillars of Islam
  • Soviet policy toward religion
  • location of the Jews
  • Lutheranism
  • Who are the Palestinians and where do they live?
  • branches of Islam
  • Conflict in northern Ireland
  • largest universalizing religion
  • largest ethnic religion
  • branches of Christianity

   

• Which religion:
  • likely to believe in other religions simultaneously
  • ontrolled much of present-day Spain until 1492, but not since then
  • controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1,500 years
  • inanimate objects and natural events have spirits
  • cremation
  • Siddhartha Guatama
  • Makkah (Mecca)

   

• Religions and . . .
  • relocation diffusion
  • expansion diffusion
    • hierarchical expansion diffusion
    • contagious expansion diffusion

• Some of the Maps Seen in the Exams
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    Religions

    

    Hearth Areas of the Major Religions

    

     

    

     

• Religion Maps and Figures for Studying
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WEEK 9 - LANGUAGE - Chapter 5

• Conflicts
  • Biafra
  • ETA (Basques)

• Define
  • dialect
  • language branch
  • language family
  • lingua franca
  • Basque
  • isogloss
  • ideograms

• Other
  • English:
    • development of English
    • development of dialects
    • which language branch?
    • which language family?
    • why in North America?
    • which language family?
  • which language family has the most speakers?
  • which language family has the most languages?
  • Anatolian hearth theory
  • Nomadic warrior (Kurgan) theory
  • Celtic languages
  • official languages of Switzerland
  • Russian - which language branch?
  • why has the Icelandic language changed little?
  • 4 largest branches of Indo-European family
  • language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world
  • why are such a large number of individual languages found in Africa?
  • most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • language in Brazil
  • largest language family / second largest
  • two most important languages in South America

• Textbook Figures
  • Branches of the Indo-European Language Family (figure 5-9)
  • Figures 5-14 and 5-15
  • Figure 5-16 !!!

• Some of the Maps Seen in the Exams
  • Language Families

    

    Which Languages?

    

     

    Branches of the Indo-European Language Family

    

     

    Conflicts

    

     

   

   

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