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Intensive land use
A livelihood requiring the use of small land areas, such as farming.
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Intertillage
Growing two or more crops simultaneously in alternate rows.
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Investment
Investment: the provision of resources, usually money, for a business venture, to later profit from it.
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Irredentism
Movement by an ethnic group in one country to revive or reinforce kindred ethnicity in another country-often to promote succession there.
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Irrigated land
Irrigation: supplying dry land with water through a system of canals or pipes so that crops will grow.
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Irrigation
The artificial placement of water to produce crops, generally in arid locations.
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Islam
A monotheistic religion based on the prophet Muhammad’s teachings and the biggest cultural and religious influence in north Africa.
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Island chain
A series of islands formed by ocean crust sliding over a stationary hot spot in the earth’s mantle.
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Jainism
Originating in India, Jain’s spiritual philosophy believes in an eternal human soul, the eternal universe, and a principle of “the own nature of things.”
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Jakota triangle
A zone of prosperity during the 1980s and early 1990s-Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Japan Sea
The Japan Sea is the no. 14th contiguous open water surface on earth. It has a huge, 389,1 square mile (1,007,800 square km) area and 4,429 square feet (1,35 square meters) average depth. The Japan Sea’s greatest known depth is 12,276 feet (3,742 meters), which can be found at Central Basin.
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Japanese Encephalitis
A mosquito-borne (Culex tritaeniorhynchus) viral disease associated with rural areas in Asia.
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Jordan River
A river that serves as a natural boundary between Israel and Jordan, flowing from the mountains of Lebanon with no outlet to the mediterranean sea.
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Judaism
One of the first known monotheistic religions, likely dating to between 2000-1500 B.C.
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Junta
A government-run by generals after a military takeover.
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Karst
Landscape features associated with the dissolution of limestone or dolomite, including caves, sinkholes, and towers.
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Kashmir
A region of northern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought.
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Keystone species
A species that affect many other organisms in an ecosystem.
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Khmer Empire
A powerful empire that lasted roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries in what is now Cambodia.
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Kimbanguist
Simon Kimbangu founded a puritan form of the Baptist denomination in the 1920s in the Democratic Republic of Congo.