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The branch of Islam regarding male descendants of Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, as the only rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
One of the two main branches of Islam, including most Iranians and some Iraq and Afghanistan populations.
A cycle of land use between crop and fallow years is needed to work around tropical soils’ infertility.
A native animist tradition of Japan, Shinto practice is based upon the premise that every being and object has its spirit or kami.
The emperor’s army with the powers of a military dictator, a position created by the Japanese emperor in 1192 after a struggle between two powerful clans.
A region of central and eastern Russia, stretching from the Ural mountains to the pacific ocean, is known for its mineral resources and political exile.
The Central American Integration System (SICA) was established on 13 December 1991 (operational from 1 February 1993) to strengthen democracy and set up a new regional security model to promote freedom.
The founder of Buddhism and known as the Buddha, born in southern Nepal in the sixth century B.C.
Founded by Guru Nana, Sikhism believes in a non-anthropomorphic, supreme, eternal, creator God; centering one’s devotion to God is seen as a means of escaping the cycle of rebirth.
The section of Scotland between Glasgow and Edinburgh, named for its high concentration of high-tech companies.
The 4,000-mile (6,437 km) route between China and the Mediterranean sea was named for China’s costly silk.
Loose sedimentary material containing tiny rock particles, formed by river deposits and very fertile.
Silt: very small particles deposited by a river or lake.
A single-party state is a political system dominated by one ruling party, restricting opposition and concentrating power to control governance and public life. For a detailed description, click on the article title.
An Indo-Aryan people crossed the strait separating India and Sri Lanka in the sixth-century B.C. And who created an advanced civilization there, adopting Buddhism.
A hot, steady south wind blows from north Africa across the mediterranean sea into southern Europe, mostly in spring.
Site is the specific geographic location of a given place. Simultaneously, the situation is the accessibility of that site and the nature of that locale’s economic and population characteristics.
A way of clearing fields for planting by cutting trees, brush, and grasses and burning them.
The large area of the western former Soviet region containing most of the region’s cities, industries, and cultivated lands.
A map was constructed to give a highly generalized view of a large area.