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| 6987832659 | agrarian | concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land | 0 | |
| 6987832660 | allies | an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy | 1 | |
| 6987832662 | archipelago | a group of many islands in a large body of water | 2 | |
| 6987832664 | assimilation | the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the dominant/prevailing culture and becomes accepted | 3 | |
| 6987832665 | Austrasia | new name for the western Pacific Rim where a significant regional realignment is now taking place. Includes rapidly-developing countries & parts of countries lining the Pacific from Japan's Hokkaido in the north to New Zealand in the South | 4 | |
| 6987832666 | autocratic / autocracy | characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule | 5 | |
| 6987832667 | birth rate | the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time | 6 | |
| 6987832668 | Buddhism | a world religion or philosophy based on the teaching of the Buddha and holding that a state of enlightenment can be attained by suppressing worldly desire | 7 | |
| 6987832670 | Capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership of capital | 8 | |
| 6987832671 | cash crop | farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family | 9 | |
| 6987832672 | Caste system | a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity | 10 | |
| 6987832673 | Christianity | a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior | 11 | |
| 6987832675 | climate | the average weather a place has over a long period of time (usually 20 to 30 years) | 12 | |
| 6987832676 | Communism | a political system characterized by a centrally planned economy with all economic and political power resting in the hands of the central government | 13 | |
| 6987832677 | continent | the largest main land masses of the globe | 14 | |
| 6987832678 | culture | the ideas, beliefs, and customs that are shared and accepted by people in a society | 15 | |
| 6987832679 | custom | something done by people in a particular society because it is traditional | 16 | |
| 6987832680 | death rate | the number of deaths per 1,000 people in an area | 17 | |
| 6987832681 | delta | a low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water | 18 | |
| 6987832682 | democracy | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 19 | |
| 6987832683 | demographics | statistical characteristics of human populations, such as gender, age, income level, etc. | 20 | |
| 6987832684 | desertification | degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting | 21 | |
| 6987832685 | diffusion | the movement of customs or ideas from one place to another | 22 | |
| 6987832686 | elevation | height above (or below) sea level | 23 | |
| 6987832687 | enclave | a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory | 24 | |
| 6987832688 | Equator | an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole | 25 | |
| 6987832689 | ethnicity | a social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race | 26 | |
| 6987832690 | ethnocentrism | thinking about things based only on what your own culture/ethnicity does; not valuing the culture, traditions, etc. of others; tendency to judge others compared to your own ethnic group, with the belief your own ethnic group is superior | 27 | |
| 6987832691 | export | to ship out (merchandise, resources, workers, ideas, etc.) to other countries for sale, exchange, etc. | 28 | |
| 6987832692 | Fertile Crescent | a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates | 29 | |
| 6987832693 | feudalism | a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 30 | |
| 6987832694 | flood plain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | 31 | |
| 6987832695 | geography | the study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other | 32 | |
| 6987832696 | ghetto | a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | 33 | |
| 6987832698 | hemisphere | half of the earth | 34 | |
| 6987832699 | Hinduism | A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms | 35 | |
| 6987832700 | immigrant/emigrant | a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there | 36 | |
| 6987832701 | imperialism | the policy of extending authority over several foreign countries to form an empire. Imperialism takes colonialism to the next level by holding many colonies, not just one | 37 | |
| 6987832702 | import | to bring in (merchandise, resources, ideas, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, trade, sale, and processing | 38 | |
| 6987832703 | indigenous | something that is originally from an area, or grows and lives in a certain environment naturally; native | 39 | |
| 6987832704 | Indochina | French colony made up of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam | 40 | |
| 6987832705 | industrialization | when a country organizes factories, technology, and workers to manufacture (in order to mass-produce) things for sale | 41 | |
| 6987832706 | infrastructure | the system of public works of a country, state, or region, such as roads, electricity, sewers, running water, etc. | 42 | |
| 6987832707 | interdependence | the dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world | 43 | |
| 6987832708 | irrigation | supplying dry land with water by means of ditches | 44 | |
| 6987832710 | isthmus | a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas | 45 | |
| 6987832711 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion founded by Abraham and whose followers are called Jews | 46 | |
| 6987832712 | land bridge | the way that the first people may have arrived in the Americas; connected Siberia and Alaska around 40,000 years ago. | 47 | |
| 6987832713 | landforms | natural features of the earth's surface | 48 | |
| 6987832714 | landlocked | surrounded by land; cut off from the sea | 49 | |
| 6987832715 | latitude | the set of imaginary parallel lines that circle the earth parallel to the Equator and measure the distance north and south of the equator in degrees | 50 | |
| 6987832716 | longitude | distance east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees | 51 | |
| 6987832717 | matriarchy | a society in which the mother is the supreme authority in the family, clan or tribe and children belong to the mother's family or tribe; women have the governing authority | 52 | |
| 6987832718 | median | relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | 53 | |
| 6987832719 | megalopolis | a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) | 54 | |
| 6987832721 | mestizo | a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry | 55 | |
| 6987832722 | modernization | the transformation of traditional societies into industrial societies | 56 | |
| 6987832724 | mulatto | the term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent | 57 | |
| 6987832725 | nation-state | an independent geopolitical unit of people having a common culture and identity | 58 | |
| 6987832727 | natural resources | the natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc.; natural resources 1) make a country wealth, 2) have a limit, and 3) are not man-made | 59 | |
| 6987832729 | occidental | west; denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the Western Hemisphere | 60 | |
| 6987832730 | oligarchy | a political system governed by a small group of people | 61 | |
| 6987832731 | oriental | east; denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java | 62 | |
| 6987832733 | pandemic | disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population | 63 | |
| 6987832734 | Pangaea | the super continent where all the continents were once joined | 64 | |
| 6987832735 | patriarchy | a society in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan or tribe and children belong to the fathers family or tribe; men have authority over woman and children. | 65 | |
| 6987832736 | peninsula | body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water | 66 | |
| 6987832737 | physical map | a map that shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. | 67 | |
| 6987832738 | plains | an extensive area of level and rolling, treeless country, often covered by rich, fertile soil | 68 | |
| 6987832739 | plantation | an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) | 69 | |
| 6987832740 | plateau | a large area of flat land elevated high above sea | 70 | |
| 6987832741 | political map | a map showing units such as countries, states, provinces, districts, etc.l each is normally a different color | 71 | |
| 6987832742 | polytheistic | worshipping or believing in more than one god | 72 | |
| 6987832743 | population density | number of individuals per unit area | 73 | |
| 6987832744 | prime meridian | a line that runs north to south through Greenwich England; other meridians are measured from this | 74 | |
| 6987832745 | prime minister | the leader of the executive branch of a parliamentary government | 75 | |
| 6987832746 | race | people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock | 76 | |
| 6987832747 | refugees | people who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion | 77 | |
| 6987832748 | rite of passage | a ritual performed in some cultures at times when a individual changes his status (as from adolescence to adulthood) | 78 | |
| 6987832749 | rituals | another name for ceremonies or rites | 79 | |
| 6987832750 | rural | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; of or pertaining to agriculture: rural economy | 80 | |
| 6987832751 | savanna | grassland with scattered trees; found in tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and South America | 81 | |
| 6987832752 | secular | not spiritual or religious; worldly | 82 | |
| 6987832753 | sedentary | not migratory; settled | 83 | |
| 6987832754 | shantytown | a usually poor town or section of a town consisting mostly of small wooden shacks | 84 | |
| 6987832755 | sharecropping | system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops | 85 | |
| 6987832756 | social classes | group of people who hold similar positions in society, share similar wealth, and receive similar respect from other members of society | 86 | |
| 6987832758 | standard of living | the level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, group, or nation | 87 | |
| 6987832759 | subsistence farming | farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing | 88 | |
| 6987832760 | sultan | a noble title for the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | 89 | |
| 6987832761 | tariff | a government tax on imports or exports | 90 | |
| 6987832762 | theocracy | a government controlled by religious leaders | 91 | |
| 6987832764 | trade | the business of buying and selling or exchanging items | 92 | |
| 6987832765 | tributary | a stream or river that flows into a larger river | 93 | |
| 6987832766 | uniformity | sameness; monotony; (adj.) uniform: the same all over | 94 | |
| 6987832768 | urban | of, relating to, or located in a city; characteristic of the city or city life | 95 | |
| 6987832769 | urbanization | the growth of cities and the migration of people into them | 96 | |
| 6987832770 | weather | the temperature and humidity of a place at a specific time | 97 | |
| 6987832771 | westernization | the adoption of Western culture, including government, food, clothing, religion and customs | 98 |
