World Regional Geography

GEG 101-001
North Africa and Southwest Asia

For all of the concepts, ideas, and terms" here you should be able to DEFINE and GIVE AN EXAMPLE from the realm.

Am online glossary can be found at:
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101i/glossary.htm


culture hearth

 

cultural diffusion

 

spatial diffusion

 

expansion diffusion

 

relocation diffusion

 

contagious diffusion

 

hierarchical diffusion

 

Islamization

 

religious revivalism

 

Al-Qaeda

 

buffer state

 


qanats (p. 320)

 

fertile cresent (p. 324)

 

hydraulic civilization theory (p. 324)

 

cataracts (p. 324)

 

intra-Islamic conflict (p. 320)

 

Quran

 

Wahhabism (Muwahhidun) (p. 332, 368, 369)

 

OPEC (p.337)

 

Longitudinally and latitiudinally (p.339)

 

basin irrigation vs perennial irrigation (p. 339)

 

revivalist Muslims

 

orographic rainfall (p344)

 

stateless nation (p.351, 352)

 

"axis of evil (p. 347)

 

1991 Gulf War (p. 347)

 

WMD (p. 347)

 

nation (p.351)

 

nation state (351)

 

Sunni / Shiah or Shi'ite or Shia

 

Golan Heights

 

centripetal force (p. 352)

 

forward capital (p. 354, 368)

 

choke point (p.359)

 

nomadism (p. 364)

 

buffer state (p. 369)

 

Mujahideen (p. 369)

 

Taliban (p. 369)

 

Cold War (p. 370)