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| a prolong Palestinian uprising against Israel. |
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| a belief system in which natural features carry spiritual meaning. |
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| a set of ecological changes that converts non desert lands into deserts. |
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| modern efforts by dominant countries to control economic and political affairs. |
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| European Jews who worked to create a Jewish homeland (Zion) on lands once occupied by their ancestors in Palestine. |
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| patriarchal leaders of tribal groups on the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| a title of the former monarch of Iran |
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| episodes of persecution, ethnic cleansing, and sometimes massacre especially conducted against European Jews |
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| the taking by a man of more than one wife at a time. |
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| the custom of having one wife at a time. |
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| won the nobel peace prize and fought for racial justice (apartheid) in South Africa. |
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| Warlord and former liberian politician (bad guy) |
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| Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party governments |
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
it is a oil cartel and includes libya saudi arabia iran iraq qatar kuwait algeria |
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| Jews and Christians were allowed to practice their religion. The ottomon empire whithered in the face of Europe. (Fell in WWI). Almost all of the Ottomon Territories were given to France and Brittian. |
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| classified as a terroist group, founded in egypt, want to instill the Qur'an. |
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| are an ethnic group in Western Asia, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. |
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| sometimes called cutting. ( female genital manipulation) or (female genital excision) |
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| a grassroot movement to replace secular governments and civil laws with government and laws guided by islamic principles. |
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| King Leopold II of Belgium |
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| Turned Congo into a massive labor camp and killed many. He started modern humanitarianism |
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| founded by freed American and Caribbean slaves, Liberia is mostly inhabited by indigenous Africans |
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