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25 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
way of life a group of people share. similar traits,beliefs, customs, technology/material items, language, religion |
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Cultural Hearths |
centre of cultural development- where ideas and traditions spread |
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Diffusion |
Migration-cultural diffusion-relocation diffusion e.g the silk road |
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Acculturation |
When something new has been accepted |
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Subsistence Agriculture |
Poor areas-grows only enough to sustain family |
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GDP |
Gross Deomstic Product- exonomic activity in country |
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GNP |
Gross Nation Product- Goods'services produced by country |
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IMR |
Infant Mortality Rate - number of babies die per every 1000 live births |
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Metropolitan |
Region-central city and surrounding suburbs |
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Megalopolis |
Several metropolitan areas overlapped |
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Urbanization |
rural population moving to the urban city |
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Urban Sprawl |
spreading of urban developments |
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world city |
cities that play an important role in the world-economy wise |
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migration |
people moving from home country- could be because of economic opputunities or to flee from war/disasters |
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Traditional Economy |
traditional custom where people would trade resources for other resources |
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Command Economy |
resource management-decision by a centra authority |
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Market Economy |
free enterprise-private businesses |
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Autocracy |
Monarchy-Queen/King in power/has authority Dictatorship-one individual has power |
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Democracy |
citizen's opinions included in making decisions |
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Oligarchy |
a group rules |
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Theocracy |
ruled by religious laws |
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Infrastructure |
the nessecary systems for a country/society to function |
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Natural Borders |
geographically borders that are there |
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Geometric Borders |
Lat/Long borders |
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Commercial Agriculture |
large areas of farming used for selling |
