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13534007567venture capitalistsIndividuals or companies that invest in new businesses in exchange for partial ownership of those businesses.0
13534007568DeterritorializationThe movement of economic, social and cultural processes out of the hands of states.1
13534007569conspicuous consumptionBuying and using products because of the "statement" they make about social position2
13534007570ProtectionismEconomic policy of shielding an economy from imports.3
13534007571Gallatin PlanA plan, devised by Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1808, that attempted to parallel land and water trafficways along the *Atlantic seaboard*, establish connections between Atlantic streams and *western waters*, connect the *Great Lakes system*, and create a system of *westward roads to the frontiers*4
13534007572Christaller's Central Place TheoryA theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.5
13534156695Bochert's Model of Urban EvolutionHe refers to 5 different distinct periods of time each shows the particular transport technology in the creation and differential rates6
13534156696Sail-Wagon EpochPeriod of expansion with primitive overland and waterway circulation - leading cities northeastern ports heavily oriented to European overseas trade - Hinterlands barely accessible.7
13534156697Steamboat epochThey used steamboats to travel upriver8
13534156698Automobile Epoch1920+; Transport Channel: Cars, trucks9

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