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Individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture

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Acculturation

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New idea that a culture accepts

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Innovation

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Connections around the world increase and cultures become more alike

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Globalization

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All features of people’s way of life, passed down form generation to generation

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Culture

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Human population that share a common culture or ancestry

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Ethnic groups

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People believe strictly in following certain established principles or teachings

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Fundamentalism

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Activities and behavior that people often take part in

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Culture traits

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Seek followers all over the world

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Universalizing regions

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Belief in presence of spirits in forces of nature

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Animistic

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An idea or innovation spreads to other from one person or group to another and is adopted

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Diffusion

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Following long time practices and opposing modern technologies or ideas

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Traditionalism

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Belief in one god

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Monotheistic

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Belief in many gods

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Polytheistic

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Process by which manufacturing based on machine power becomes wide spread in area

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Industrialization

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Different cultures blending together

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Cultural convergence

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People freely choose what to sell

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Market Economy

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Lets competition among businesses determine the price of products, this drives this business makers decisions

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Free enterprise

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Businesses, industries, and resources are privately owned

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Capitalism

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Gov decides what to produce, where to produce, where to make it, and what price to charge

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Command Economy

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Focus on ethnic group

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Ethnic religion

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Ecomonic and political system in which the gov owns or control almost all the means of production

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Communism

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Percent of people who can read or write

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Literacy rate

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Only goods and services created within a country

Number divided people in country

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Gross Domestic Product

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Less productive economically, lower standards of living

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Developing country

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High levels of industrialization and high standard of living
Developed country
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System of roads,ports, and other facilities needed by a modern economy
Infrastructure
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Use natural resources directly
Primary
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Use raw materials to produce or manufacture something nww
Secondary
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Provide services to people and businesses
Tertiary
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Process and distribute info
Quaternary
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Statistical study of human populations
Demography
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Average number of people living in one area
Population density
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Number of births each year for every 1,000 people living in a place
Birthrate
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The total number of deaths each year for every 1000 people
Deathrate
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Process of moving from one place to another
Migration
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People who leave a country to live somewhere else
Emigrants
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People who come to a country from somewhere else
Immigrants
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Citizens have power, representatives
Republic democracy
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Process of cultures becoming separate and distinct
Cultural divergence
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Causes people to leave a location
Push factor
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Growth in proportion of people living in towns and cities
Urbanization
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Attracts people to a new location
Pull factor
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People who have been forced to leave a cannot return to their home
Refugee
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Deaths-births
Natural increase
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Ruling family (queen or king)
Monarchy
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Rule by religious laws\leaders
Theocracy
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Individual has total control, power by force
Dictatorship
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Total control by people (in theory)
Communism
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All power is concentrated by leader/leaders
Authoritarian
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More extreme version of authoritarianism, control over all aspects of life (N.Korea)
Totalitarianism
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Farmers grow crops to sell to customers. Specialize in growing crops that other people want to buy and they can sell a profit
Market-oriented agriculture
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Grow plants and tame animals for own use
Domestication
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What are considered the two most important developments in human history?
Raising animals and grow crops
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What are 4 factors that help determine cities locations
1. Location near key resources 2. Location along transportation 3. Location along trade routes 4. Location easily defended sites
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Cities grow into huge urban areas
World city
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Why do you birthrates drop
Farming in rural areas advance with education and turn into urban and secondary and tertiary areas
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Dominated by large stores, offices, and buildings
Central Business District
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Problems caused from artificial boundaries
Separating people and natural resources or putting two different ethnic groups in the same country (conflict over power)
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Clusters of large buildings away from CBD
Edge cities
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Food is produced by a family for its own needs. Anything extra, usually very little, may be sold for important supplies
Subsistence agriculture
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Secondary
Industry
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Supply and demand
Bigger demand= bigger size Smaller demand= smaller size
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Primary
Hunting and gathering, subsistence farming, and commercial farming
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Natural versus artificial boundaries
Natural means they are naturally made Ex: carved around rivers and mountains Artificial means drawn in
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Per capita
Per person
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Why do you death rates drop?
Improvement in healthcare, water systems improve, and more food. Basically better infrastructure.
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Tertiary
Services
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Quaternary
Management, and research and development
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Developed vs developing countries
Developed countries have market oriented agriculture and are urbanized while developing countries are subsistence agriculture and rural
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Demographic model
``` 1- amazon rainforest 2- developing 3- middle income 4- developed 5- super developed ```
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brain gain
an increase in the number of highly trained, foreign-born professionals entering a country to work
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brain drain
a loss of trained professionals to another company or country
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multi-national corporations
organization that owns or controls production of goods and services in one or more countries.

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