SW Asia & North Africa | GEOG 202 - GEOG OF GLOBAL VILLAGE, Quizzes of Geography

Download SW Asia & North Africa | GEOG 202 - GEOG OF GLOBAL VILLAGE and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 brain drain DEFINITION 1 migration of best-educated people from dvping countries to dvpd nations where econ opportunities are greater TERM 2 culture hearth DEFINITION 2 an area of historical cultural innovation TERM 3 domestication DEFINITION 3 the purposeful selection & breeding of wild plants and animals for cultural purposes TERM 4 exotic river DEFINITION 4 river that issues from a humid area and flows into a dry area otherwise lacking streams TERM 5 Fertile Crescent DEFINITION 5 ecologically diverse zone of lands in SW Asia that extends from Lebanon eastward to Iraq, associated w/ early forms of agricultural domestication TERM 6 fossil water DEFINITION 6 water supplies that were stored underground during wetter climatic periods TERM 7 Hajj DEFINITION 7 Islamic religious pilgrimage to Makkah; one of the 5 essential pillars of the Muslim creed to be undertaken TERM 8 hydropolitics DEFINITION 8 the interplay of water resource issues and politics TERM 9 Islamic fundamentalism DEFINITION 9 mvmt within Shiite and Sunni Muslim traditions to return to a more conservative, religious-based society and state; often associated w/ rejection of Western culture TERM 10 Islamism DEFINITION 10 political mvmt within the religion of Islam that challenges the encroachment of global pop culture and blames colonial, imperial, and Western elements for many of the region's problems; advocate merging civil and religious authority