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What are the 5 themes of geography?

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Movement, region, human environment interaction, location, place

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Prefer our own, out of familiarity; judge other cultures by our own standards

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Ethnocentricism

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Relying on other people for goods and services

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Interdependence

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What are the 4 map projections?

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Mercator, peters, robinson, interrupted

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Shows the correct areas of landmasses and oceans, accurate directions, distorts the shape of Africa and South America (look longer and thinner)

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Peters

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Most used today, correct sizes and shapes of most landmasses, fairly accurate view of the sizes of oceans and distances across land, distortions along edge

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Robinson

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Shows direction accurately, accurate view of land areas near equator, distorts the size and shape of lands near the north and south poles

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Mercator

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Corrects sizes and shapes, cuts down parts of oceans, impossible to measure distance accurately

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Interrupted

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What are the 7 elements of culture?

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Social organization, religion, economic system, government, customs & traditions, language, arts & literature

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What are the 2 types of location?

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Absolute and relative

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Made up of human and physical characteristics; affects how a person lives

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Place

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How humans adapt, modify, and depend on the environment

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Human environment interaction

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How people, goods, and things are transported

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Movement

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An area displays coherent unity in terms of language, government, landforms, or situation

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Region

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What are the 3 types of regions?

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Formal, functional, vernacular

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What are 3 parts of the UN?

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General assembly, security council, economic and social council

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17
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What is the job of the UN?

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Promote peace, modernize nations

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18
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Who developed Apartheid?

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Afrikaner

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Black and whites would advance and live separately but have equal opportunity

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Apartheid

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20
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Why did Europeans come to Africa?

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Economic and religious reasons

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Trade routes that benefitted/ affected Europe, Africa and North America

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Triangle trade

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22
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What did Africa trade to North America?

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Slaves

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23
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What did Europe trade to Africa?

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Goods and Weapons

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What did North America trade to Europe?

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Cotton and sugar

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25
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Why was there slave trade in Africa?

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Cheap labor for business owners

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26
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Turning semi desert to desert

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Desertification

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27
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Where did desertification take place?

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Sahel

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28
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Worshipping more than one god

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Polytheism

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29
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What is an example of polytheism?

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Hinduism

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30
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Worshipping only one god

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Monotheism

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31
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What is an example of monotheism?

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Buddhism, Christianity

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32
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Where did early civilizations develop?

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Mesopotamia

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33
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What is the conflict in Somalia?

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Warlords are taking over, weak government, genocide in Darfur

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What are the similarities between the caste system and apartheid?

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Separated people, people couldn’t really get out of the situation

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35
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What are the 3 types of nations?

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Developed, newly developed, developing

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Basic economy is agriculture, population is rural, rapid population growth, high illiteracy rate

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Developing

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Depend on specialty product, higher education, increased GNP

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Newly Developed

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Highly industrialized, high number of exports, educational opportunities, high employment rate, diverse economy

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Developed

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39
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What are the 4 stages of population pyramids?

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Primitive, early expanding, late expanding, zero population growth

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Birth rate drops, living standards rise/manufacturing, education and birth control

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Late expanding

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41
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Very few countries remain at this stage today, high birth and death rates

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Primitive

42
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Improved hygiene and medical technology, birth rates remain high, high infant mortality rates

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Early Expanding

43
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Birth rates equal death rates, population count is at max

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Zero population growth

44
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Landmass in square miles and number of people

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Area and population

45
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Where government is centered

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Capital

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What people speak

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Major languages

47
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Birth rates minus death rates

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Population growth

48
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Percentage of a country’s population living in urban areas

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Urban population

49
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Year the nation was established, gained independence, or took on its modern form

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Date of independence

50
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Percentage of people who can read and write

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Literacy rate

51
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Value of all goods and services produced within a country in one year

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GDP

52
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Age an infant is expected to live

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Life expectancy

53
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Measure of economic and social wellbeing; includes life expectancy, education, and average income

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Human development index

54
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Amount of people who are under 15 years old

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Percent population under 15 years of age

55
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Who is part of the General Assembly?

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All countries

56
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Who are the 5 permanent members of the security council?

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China, France, Russia, United States, UK

57
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What are the 5 parts of the caste system?

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Brahman, krshatreya, vaishya, shudra, untouchables

58
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How is the caste system connected to Hinduism?

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Caste systems are based on how one is reincarnated and has do to their karma for dharma. Can’t get out of caste system

59
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Idea that your current life affects the next life

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Karma

60
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Duties and obligations in the caste system to have a better reincarnation

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Dharma

61
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Name of militia group in Sudan

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Janjaweed

62
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Why was the Janjaweed formed?

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Other people were going against the Sudanese government

63
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Europeans started to bring Africans as slaves to their colonies in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Americans in 1600s

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Middle Passage

64
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What happened when the US tried to help out Somalia?

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They didn’t like that they needed help and acted hostile towards the US

65
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Where did the send troops in order to provide food and aid in December of 1992?

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Somalia

66
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Who aided in helping to end Apartheid?

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Desmond Tutu, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela

67
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Black leader of the ANC in South Africa and was held in prison for 27 years.

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Nelson Mandela

68
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Leader of Zimbabwe since 1980

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Robert Mugabe

69
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Why is the genocide in Sudan being fought?

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There are religious conflicts going on since the Arabs are taking over the government and are forcing their religious rule onto other people

70
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Region in Sudan where genocide is taken place

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Darfur

71
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What two sides fought in the Sudan civil war?

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Black Africans and Arabs

72
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What kind of tactics did Gandhi use while fighting for independence?

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Non-violence, civil disobedience

73
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Who ruled Rwanda?

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Germany and Belgium

74
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Who did the Belgians left in charge of Rwanda?

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Tutsi

75
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Who ruled the government after Belgium was out of the picture?

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Hutus

76
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What were the roots of genocide in Rwanda?

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president of Rwanda was killed, Hutus were angry and killed Tutsis

77
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Why did the UN and US sit out of Rwanda’s situation?

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Had no benefits, no resources, no strategic value, Somalia

78
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What are the effects of AIDS in Africa?

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People are dying, there is a higher population of young people, government is not much help

79
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Absolute, unchanging (god/power)

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Brahman

80
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Religious rights being violated because of biting the gun caps off

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Sepoy Rebellion

81
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What are some examples of unfair treatment that the British had on the Indians?

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They told what crops to grow, salt tax

82
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What is an example of a physical geography effecting a nation?

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India is isolated from other countries because of oceans and mountains

83
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A region that has specific borders

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Formal

84
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What is an example of a functional region?

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Zip code, area codes

85
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A region that you think about in your head (up north, down south)

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Vernacular

86
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Are globes or maps more accurate? Why?

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Globe because a map could distort the countries

87
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What are the four types of economies?

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Traditional, market, command mixed

88
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An economy that lives off the land, trading

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Traditional

89
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An economy where you could buy and sell things

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Market economy

90
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Government controls the economy

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Command

91
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An economy that has a market and command economy

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Mixed

92
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What’s the difference between a nuclear and extended family?

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Nuclear family is just parents and children, while extended is cousins, aunts, uncles, parents, kids

93
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Culture spreading out to different areas

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Cultural diffusion

94
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Distinct way of living and is learned by people in a society

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Culture

95
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Have to follow their decisions

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Security council

96
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Don’t have to follow decisions

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General assembly

97
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What is the most important reason why Europeans went to Africa?

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Economic reasons

98
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A country taking over another country and controlling it politically and economically

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Imperialism

100
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What is the origin of Hinduism?

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Indus Valley

101
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Who founded Hinduism?

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Nomadic Aryans

102
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Early African trade centered on what?

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Gold and salt

104
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What type of government does India have?

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Parliamentary democracy

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