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| a ringlike island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon |
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| a conference of 14 European nations held in 1884-1885 in Berlin, Germany, to establish rules for political control of Africa |
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| an uprising on China in 1900, spurred by angry Chinese militants, or Boxers, over foreign control; several hundred Europeans, Christians, and the Chinese died |
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| a religion that originated in India about 500 B.C. and spread to China, where in grew into major religion in A.D. 400. They believe in rebirth and it was founded by Siddhartha Gautama |
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| the Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into caste and can only move to a different one through reincarnation |
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| a treatable infectious disease that can be fatal and is caused by lack of adequate sanitation and a clean water supply |
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| an agricultural or mining product that can be sold |
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| a government in which the ruler’s powers are limited by the constitution and the laws of the nation |
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| an Islamic place of worship, where muslims pray facing toward the holy city of Mecca |
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| a volcano in Tanzania in Africca, Africa’s highest peak |
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| one of the leaders of the African National Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the first all race election in South Africa |
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| an Islamic practise of a month long fasting from sunup to sundown |
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| the period of british rule in India, which last for near 200 years from 1857 to 1947 |
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| a person of Tibetan ancestry in Nepal, who serves as a traditional mountain guide to the Mount Everest |
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| a nation of people ise lineage, or families whose members are desedents from a common ancestor |
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| a strict Muslim group in Afganastan that has imposed rigid rules on society |
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| form of government on which religious leaders control the government relying in religious law and consultation with religious scolers |
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| a giant ocean wave, caused by an underwater earthquake or volcano erupsion with great desructive power |
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| a set of closely grouped islands |
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| a movement based on teaching of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher who lived about 500 BC; Confucius stressed the importance of education in an ordered society in which one respect one’s elders and obeys the government |
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| petroleum that hasn't been processed |
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| a landlocked salt lake between Isreal and Jordan that is so saltly that almost nothing can live in it's waters; it's 1,349 feet below sea level, making it the lowest place on the exposed crust of the earth |
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| the removal of salt from the ocean water |
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| a series of rules from the same family |
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| a country w/ rapid growth due to cheap labor, high technology, and aggressive exports |
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| a desert located in northern China and southern Mongolia, and a prime area for finding dinosaur fossils |
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| the dominate religion of India |
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| the basic support system needed to keep an economy going |
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| a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, and the biggest cultural and religious influence in north America |
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| an infectious disease of the red blood cells carried by mosquitoes, it's characterized my chills, fever, and sweating |
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| the leader of Communists in China who defeated the Nationalists in 1949 |
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| the holiest city of Islam, located in Saudi Arabia where people make pilgrimages to fulfill Islamic religious |
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| a small loan available to poor entrepreneurs, to help small businesses to grow and raise living standerds |
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| a place where water from an aquifer has reached the surface, support vegetation and wildlife |
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| the Organization of petroleum exporting countries, a group established in 1960 by some oil producing nation the coordinated policies on selling the petroleum products. |
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| a dam in China built in the 20th century to help control flooding |
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| a tropical storm, like a hurricane, the occurs in the western Pacific |
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| a respiratory infection spread by human contact relating to aids |
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