The low-wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods. According to Jewish teaching, Abraham and God have a covenant in which the Jews agree to worship only one God, and God agrees to protect his chosen people, the Jews, From the Greek "to disperse," a term describing forceful or voluntary dispersal of a people from their homeland to a new place. The protocol called for a reduction in the production and consumption of chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) of 50 percent by 2000. Hinduism is unique among the world's religions in that it does not have a single founder, a single theology, or agreement on its origins, The strict social segregation of people—specifically in India's Hindu society—on the basis of ancestry and occupation, Religion founded in the sixth century BCE and characterized by the belief that enlightenment would come through knowledge, especially self-knowledge; elimination of greed, craving, and desire; complete honesty; and never hurting another person or animal. In the context of political power, the capacity of a state to influence other states or achieve its goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means, Forces that tend to unify a country—such as widespread commitment to a national culture, shared ideological objectives, and a common faith, Forces that tend to divide a country—such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences, A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state, A political-territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests—defense, foreign affairs, and the like—yet allows these various entities to retain their own identities and to have their own laws, policies, and customs in certain spheres, The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government, System wherein each representative is elected from a territorially defined district, Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people, In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts; as opposed to the result of majority-minority districts, In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority, Political boundary defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) as a straight line or an arc, Political boundary defined and delimited (and occaisionally demarcated) by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape—such as a river or the crest ridges of a mountain range, A geopolitical hypothesis, proposed by British geographer Halford Mackinder during the first two decades of the twentieth century, that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world. state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character. the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape, physical location of geographic phenomena across space, they are location, human-environment, region, place, and movement. service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. A process of spatial competition allocates verious farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market, currently in progress, the Third Agricultural Revolution has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), the recently successful development of higher-yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries, which led to increased production per unit area and a dramatic narrowing of the gap between population growth and food needs. Today, redlining is officially illegal.