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15 Cards in this Set
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cartography
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the body of practical and theoretical knowledge about making distinctive visual representations of Earth’s surface in the form of maps
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capitalism
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form of economic and social organization characterized by the profit motive and the control of the means of production, distribution, and the exchange of goods by private ownership
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colonialism
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the establishment and maintenance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate and alien society
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colonization
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the physical settlement of a new territory of people from a colonizing state
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commodity chain
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network of labor and production processes beginning with the extraction or production of raw materials and ending with the delivery of a finished commodity
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core region
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regions that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, and have high levels of productivity within diversified economies
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division of labor
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the specialization of different people, regions, or countries in particular kinds of economic activities
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environmental determinism
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doctrine holding that human activities are controlled by the environment
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ethnocentrism
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the attitude that one’s own race and culture are superior to others’
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imperialism
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the extension of power of a nation through direct or indirect control of the economic and political life of other territories
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neocolonialism
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economic and political strategies by which powerful states in core economics indirectly maintain or extend their influence over other areas of people
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peripheral regions
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regions with undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity
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semiperipheral regions
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regions that are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited and dominated by core regions
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spatial justice
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the fairness of the distribution of society’s burdens and benefits, taking into account spatial variations in people’s needs and in their contribution to the production of wealth and social well-being
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world system
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an interdependent system of countries linked by economic and political competition
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