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| What are the two most powerful forces shaping the geography of a culture? |
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| What are the boundaries between the world's major faiths that cause conflicts? |
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| How many inhabitants are in Nigeria? |
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| Is Nigeria a multilingual or monolingual country? |
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| What religion lies in North Nigeria? |
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| What religion lies in South Nigeria? |
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| What is the main ethnic group of the Muslims in the North? |
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| What are the two culture cores of the Christian South? |
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| In the Nigerian census what are people not asked to state? |
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| How many Christians are in Nigeria? |
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| How many Muslims are in Nigeria? |
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| How many people in Nigeria are neither Muslim nor Christian? |
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| How many Yorubas are Muslims? |
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| In 1993 a man of what religion was elected President? |
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| The Muslim North of Nigeria wanted to turn Nigeria into what? |
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| In the 2000's Nigeria was OPEC's what ranking oil producer? |
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| What is the main religion of North Sudan? |
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| What is the main religion of South Sudan? |
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| The Muslim North contains what percent of the population? |
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| What fraction of the Northern Sudans speak Arabic as a native language? |
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| The North and South conflict of Sudan was intensified by the Muslim-dominated regime where, to impose Islam's Sharia religious laws? |
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| What year did the Northerners of Sudan have a victory in its grasp? |
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| What four states make up the African Horn? |
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| Eritrea, Ethiopea, Djibouti, Somalia |
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| The heart of what place lies to be the cultural core area of Amharic Christians? |
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| In 1974 what happened that the Amharic rulers still controlled Muslim Eritreans in the North, Muslim Somailis in the East, and an arc-shaped region to the West and South? |
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| The last of Ethiopea's emperors fell |
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| A revolution created a new state of what out of Ethiopa? |
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| Is Ethiopea monocultural or multicultural? |
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| What type of people is Ethiopea covered by? |
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| Coptic (Orthodox) Christians |
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| What country is South Asia centered on? |
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| in 1947 what became the political border between Islamic Pakistan and multicultural India? |
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| Britians South Asian colonial empire |
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| What three events of the 1980's intensified the conflict of India? |
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| Sikhs campaign for a greater independence, Muslim/Hindu holy shrine, Skirmishes |
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| What state did the Sikhs demand as a greater independence? |
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| Where is Hindu fundamentalism strongest? |
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| What religions is Fundamentalism affecting today? |
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| When the Soviet Union was forced from Czar's empire 3 centuries ago, who faced the task of satisfying the territorial demand of dozens of diverse people? |
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| How many nationalities did the republics inherit in the Former Soviet Union? |
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| Between what two seas did the soviets aquire 2 territories with extreme religions? |
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| What people are the Christians on the Black Sea side? |
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| What people are the Shiite Muslims on the Caspian sea side? |
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| The Soviet communists in the Former Soviet Union wanted what type of state? |
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| What was the largest exclave of Christian Armenia which was created as an enclave within Muslim Azerbaija? |
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| What was another exclave? |
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| What was another exclave? |
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| Nakhichevan of Azerbaijan |
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| What is the largest state in Central Asia? |
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| What type of people are in the North of the Former Soviet Union? |
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| What type of people are in the South of the Former Soviet Union? |
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| What percent of the Former Soviet Union is Islamic? |
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| What percent of the Former Soviet Union belongs to Russian or Orthodox Church? |
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| What is the single most intractable problem in West Europe? |
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| The Protestant majority and Catholic minority |
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| The Protestant majority in North Ireland is what fraction of the total population? |
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| The Protestant majority in North Ireland holds all what? |
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| Economic and Political advantages |
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| In 1998 what was adopted in April in Northern Ireland? |
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| Anglo-Irish peace agreement |
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| The intrafaith boundary of North Ireland isn't about what but instead about opportunities, civil rights, opportunity access, political organization, and nationalism? |
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| What are the symbols of strife in Northern India? |
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| What is the majority of the Islamic Realm? |
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| What is the minority of the Islamic Realm? |
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| What was the most destructive modern war? |
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| Iran-Iraq conflict of the 1980's |
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| What group is on Iraq's side of the Iran-Iraq conflict of the 1980's? |
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| What group is on Iran's side of the Iran-Iraq conflict of the 1980's? |
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| What percent of Muslims are Shiite? |
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| What two other places besides the Islamic Realm is there also another conflict between the Shiite and Sunni? |
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| Lebanon and pilgrimage to Mecca |
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| What is the drive back to the basics of a religions faith? |
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| What are the five reasons for Birth of Religious Fundamentalism? |
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1. Frustration of society's morals and values
2. Loss of religious authority
3. Failure to achieve economic goals
4. Loss of a sense of local control
5. Sense of violation of a religion's core territory |
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| What event reinforced Americans to drive fundamentalism with Islam? |
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| What four things have diffused notions of individual liberties, sexual equality, freedom of choice, consumerism, and secularism? |
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| Education, radio, television, travel |
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| Has the extent and speed of cultural diffusion and innovation accelerated or decelerated? |
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| T/F: The drive toward fundamentalism in Christianity and Islam alike is creating a climate of mistrust that has already led to strife. |
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| What among the Christian religions has resisted innovations deemed to be incompatible with the fundamentals of the faith? |
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| The Christian religions tend to be more what? |
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| T/F: All Muslim communities adhere precisely to the rules of the Qu'ran such as the prohibition on the use of alcohol. |
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| Where is conservation of the laws of Islam the strongest? |
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| T/F: The laws of Islam are applied with equal force through the Muslim religious realm. |
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| What does countering Muslim fundamentalism entail? |
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| During the revolution in Iran, who imposed the most basic of Shiite religious rules and practices upon their followers? |
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| Who was the Shah replaced by? |
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| When in Iran was one of the significant early manifestations of the tend toward fundamentalism? |
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| In the 1990's what group seized control of much of Afghanistan and asserted the strictest fundamentalist regime in the contemporary world? |
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| T/F: The Taliban provided a haven for the activities of Islamic extremist who sought to promote an Islamic holy war, or jihad, against the West in general, and the United States in particular. |
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| Who was one of the key figures in the extreme Islamic fundamentalist movement of the past decade? |
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| The beliefs of bin Laden and his associates can be traced to a form of Islam known as what? |
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| Wahhabi Islam was developed in opposition to what? |
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| Sacrilegious practices on the part of Ottoman rulers |
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| What is the most important force that has fueled the violent path on which the extreme movement has embarked? |
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| The view that infidels have invaded the Islamic holy land over the past 80 years |
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| What is a principal goal of the extreme Islamic fundamentalists? |
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| To bring an end to what are seen as improper territorial incursions |
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| What is a second geographically related concern of movement activistis? |
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| The diffusion of modern culture and technology and its impact on traditional lifestyles and spiritual practices |
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| What is a key to avoiding the division of the world into mutually antagonistic religious realms? |
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| To promote an atmosphere in which feelings of war do not become widespread |
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| What has created a split between orthodox and liberal members of the Catholic Church? |
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| T/F: Interfaith and intrafaith boundaries can be equally violent. |
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| What is the most important part of globalization? |
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| What is a supreme religious leader? |
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| Who was the most famous Ayatollah? |
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| What is a piece of territory surrounded by a political unit not of its kind? |
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| What is an example of an enclave? |
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| What is a separate piece of territory? |
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| What is an example of an exclave? |
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| What type of state goes by the rules of the Qu'ran? |
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| What are the laws of the Islamic Republic based on? |
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| What is the idea of and Islamic Republic? |
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| When arose after the Civil War? |
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| In Darfur who attacked who? |
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| Janjawid (Muslims) attacked Non-Arabs (Black Africans) |
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| What percent of Sri Lanka is Buddhist? |
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| Sri Lanka is an interfaith between what two religions? |
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| In 1917 what fell with the Russian Revolution? |
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| Who wanted an atheistic state in the Russian Empire? |
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| Russia is a dominant what? |
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| How many states make up the Russian Empire? |
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| What was made after World War One? |
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| What type of territory is Yugoslavia? |
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| How many major ethnic groups are in Yugoslavia? |
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| How many minor ethnic groups are in Yugoslavia? |
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| What states came out of Yugoslavia? |
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| Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and more... |
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| What two religions are fighting in Bangladesh? |
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| What two religions are fighting in the Phillipines? |
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| Islam (5%) and Christian (95%) |
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| What religions are fighting in Israel? |
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| Judaism, Muslim, and Christian |
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