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15 Cards in this Set
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Colonialism
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A policy by which a nation maintains or extends its control over foreign dependencies.
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Fundamentalism
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religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
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Capitalism
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An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
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Secularism
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The view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education
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Socialism
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System of social organization in which private property and the distribution of income are subject to social control
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Communism
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A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single
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Nationalism
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the belief that people should be loyal to their nation
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Balkanization
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the process of breaking up a region into small, hostile units
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Isolationism
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A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.
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Globalization
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the increasing interdependence, integration and interaction among people and corporations in disparate locations around the world
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Assimilation
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a process whereby a minority group gradually gives up its own culture and adopts the culture of a majority group
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Subsistance Agriculture
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produce the amount of food just enough to feed the family
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Commercial Agriculture
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produce amount of food large enough to sell
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Push Factors
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a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region
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Pull Factors
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a factor that draws or attracts people to another location
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