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21 Cards in this Set
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Demography-
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The study of human populations
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Culture
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way of life that distinguishes people
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Population density
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the average number of people living in an area
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Birthrate
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the number of live births each year per 1,000 people
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Death rate
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the number of deaths each year per 1,000 people
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Immigrant
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- a person who moves into a country
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Emigrant
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a person who leaves a country to go elsewhere
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Urbanization
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the growth of cities population; the change from rural to urban (city like)
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Rural
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characteristic of countryside; not a city
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Diffusion
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the process of spreading culture traits from one person or society to another
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Acculturation
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the process of borrowing, exchanging, or trading traits from one culture to another
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Culture hearth-
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a place in which important ideas begins and spread around to surrounding cultures
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Sovereignty
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a countries freedom and power to decide on policies and actions
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Unitary
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a system in government in which one central government holds most of the political power
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Federal
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relating to a union of states that recognize a single central government but retain certain powers for themselves
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Confederation
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a system of government in which individual political units keep up there sovereignty but give limited power to a central gov.
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Authoritarian
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a system of gov. in which one person (such as a dictator) holds all political power
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Dictatorship
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a system of gov. in which absolute power is held by 1 person
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Totalitarianism
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a type of gov. in which a central authority controls all aspects of society, subordinating individual freedom to state interests
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Monarchy
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-a system of gov. headed by a monarch – a king ,queen, shah, or sultan—whose position is usally inherited
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Democracy
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a system of gov. in which people are invested with
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