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1
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Individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture

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Acculturation

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2
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New idea that a culture accepts

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Innovation

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3
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Connections around the world increase and cultures become more alike

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Globalization

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All features of people’s way of life, passed down form generation to generation

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Culture

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5
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Human population that share a common culture or ancestry

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Ethnic groups

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People believe strictly in following certain established principles or teachings

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Fundamentalism

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Activities and behavior that people often take part in

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Culture traits

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9
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Seek followers all over the world

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Universalizing regions

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10
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Belief in presence of spirits in forces of nature

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Animistic

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An idea or innovation spreads to other from one person or group to another and is adopted

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Diffusion

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Following long time practices and opposing modern technologies or ideas

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Traditionalism

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12
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Belief in one god

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Monotheistic

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13
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Belief in many gods

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Polytheistic

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14
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Process by which manufacturing based on machine power becomes wide spread in area

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Industrialization

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15
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Different cultures blending together

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Cultural convergence

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16
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People freely choose what to sell

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Market Economy

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Lets competition among businesses determine the price of products, this drives this business makers decisions

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Free enterprise

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Businesses, industries, and resources are privately owned

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Capitalism

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Gov decides what to produce, where to produce, where to make it, and what price to charge

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Command Economy

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20
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Focus on ethnic group

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Ethnic religion

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21
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Ecomonic and political system in which the gov owns or control almost all the means of production

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Communism

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22
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Percent of people who can read or write

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Literacy rate

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23
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Only goods and services created within a country

Number divided people in country

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Gross Domestic Product

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24
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Less productive economically, lower standards of living

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Developing country

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25
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High levels of industrialization and high standard of living

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Developed country

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System of roads,ports, and other facilities needed by a modern economy

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Infrastructure

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27
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Use natural resources directly

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Primary

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Use raw materials to produce or manufacture something nww

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Secondary

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29
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Provide services to people and businesses

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Tertiary

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30
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Process and distribute info

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Quaternary

31
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Statistical study of human populations

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Demography

32
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Average number of people living in one area

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Population density

33
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Number of births each year for every 1,000 people living in a place

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Birthrate

34
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The total number of deaths each year for every 1000 people

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Deathrate

35
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Process of moving from one place to another

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Migration

36
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People who leave a country to live somewhere else

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Emigrants

37
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People who come to a country from somewhere else

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Immigrants

38
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Citizens have power, representatives

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Republic democracy

39
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Process of cultures becoming separate and distinct

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Cultural divergence

40
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Causes people to leave a location

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Push factor

41
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Growth in proportion of people living in towns and cities

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Urbanization

42
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Attracts people to a new location

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Pull factor

44
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People who have been forced to leave a cannot return to their home

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Refugee

44
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Deaths-births

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Natural increase

45
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Ruling family (queen or king)

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Monarchy

46
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Rule by religious laws\leaders

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Theocracy

47
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Individual has total control, power by force

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Dictatorship

48
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Total control by people (in theory)

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Communism

49
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All power is concentrated by leader/leaders

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Authoritarian

50
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More extreme version of authoritarianism, control over all aspects of life (N.Korea)

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Totalitarianism

51
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Farmers grow crops to sell to customers. Specialize in growing crops that other people want to buy and they can sell a profit

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Market-oriented agriculture

52
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Grow plants and tame animals for own use

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Domestication

53
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What are considered the two most important developments in human history?

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Raising animals and grow crops

54
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What are 4 factors that help determine cities locations

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  1. Location near key resources
  2. Location along transportation
  3. Location along trade routes
  4. Location easily defended sites
55
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Cities grow into huge urban areas

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World city

56
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Why do you birthrates drop

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Farming in rural areas advance with education and turn into urban and secondary and tertiary areas

57
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Dominated by large stores, offices, and buildings

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Central Business District

59
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Problems caused from artificial boundaries

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Separating people and natural resources or putting two different ethnic groups in the same country (conflict over power)

60
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Clusters of large buildings away from CBD

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Edge cities

60
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Food is produced by a family for its own needs. Anything extra, usually very little, may be sold for important supplies

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Subsistence agriculture

62
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Secondary

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Industry

63
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Supply and demand

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Bigger demand= bigger size

Smaller demand= smaller size

64
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Primary

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Hunting and gathering, subsistence farming, and commercial farming

65
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Natural versus artificial boundaries

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Natural means they are naturally made
Ex: carved around rivers and mountains

Artificial means drawn in

66
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Per capita

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Per person

67
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Why do you death rates drop?

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Improvement in healthcare, water systems improve, and more food. Basically better infrastructure.

68
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Tertiary

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Services

69
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Quaternary

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Management, and research and development

69
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Developed vs developing countries

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Developed countries have market oriented agriculture and are urbanized while developing countries are subsistence agriculture and rural

70
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Demographic model

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1- amazon rainforest
2- developing
3- middle income
4- developed
5- super developed
71
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brain gain

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an increase in the number of highly trained, foreign-born professionals entering a country to work

72
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brain drain

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a loss of trained professionals to another company or country

73
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multi-national corporations

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organization that owns or controls production of goods and services in one or more countries.

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