Culture
Nation Vocabulary
Political Systems
Demography
Relations Among Governments
100
The foundation of culture
What is language?
100
The difference between nation and country
Nation has to do with people and country has to do with the land/geography
100
The two categories of government
What is authoritarian and elected?
100
The study of the human population and their characteristics
What is demography?
100
Nations that ignore fundamental principles of international relations
What are rogue nations?
200
The term for immediate family- parents and children
What is the nuclear family?
200
A group of people that share a common ancestor and is usually governed by a group of elders
What is a tribe?
200
This type of government is one person or a small group ruling with the authority and backing of the military
What is a dictatorship?
200
The three methods to gather demographic information
What are the census, surveys, and vital statistics
200
The art of negotiating agreements between nations
What is diplomacy?
300
The second most practiced religion in the world
What is Islam?
300
When one nation conquers another beyond its borders
What is an empire?
300
This system allows everyone to vote on every issue. BE SPECIFIC
What is direct democracy
300
The number of children born/number of people die per 1000.
What is the crude birth rate and crude death rate?
300
The set of principles that guides a government's international relations
What is foreign policy?
400
Groups of languages that share many common characteristics
What is a language family?
400
a nation of people that has established its own government
What is a nation-state
400
This type of government controls every aspect of its citizens' lives
What is totalitarian government?
400
The growth of city areas at the expense of urban areas
What is Urbanization?
400
Formal agreements between nations
What are treaties?
500
Human society that shares the same basic culture
What is a culture region?
500
the difference between political, natural, and geometric borders
Political- government/legal boundaries Natural- rivers, mountains Geometric- follow lines of latitude or longitude
500
This is a king or queen ruling under the authority of the people by virtue of laws and sometimes an elected body
What is a constitutional monarchy?
500
This statistic takes into account population density and arable land
What is physiological density?
500
Post World War II, these two organizations were formed to (1) prevent the spread of communism and (2) negotiate peaceful solutions to disputes
What are North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations (UN)?
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