The institution through which a society maintains social order, provides public services, ensures national security, and supports its economic well-being.
What is government?
100
Economic system where habit and custom determine the rules for all economic activity.
What is traditional economy?
100
Descendants of the first immigrants to the region who migrated from Asia.
Who are Native Americans?
100
The second longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon?
100
Language family that includes most of the European languages.
What is Indo-European language family?
200
A system where all key powers are given to the national or central government.
What is a unitary system.
200
Type of economy in which the government supports and regulates free enterprise through decisions that affect the marketplace.
What is a mixed economy?
200
It is formed along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States; a chain of closely linked metropolitan areas.
What is a megolopolis?
200
Where the world's largest rainforest is located.
What is Brazil?
200
An organization whose goal is a united Europe in which goods, services, and workers could move freely among member countries.
What is the EU (European Union)?
300
A system that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments.
What is a federal system?
300
Type of economy where individuals and private groups make decisions about what to produce.
What is a market economy?
300
Province of Canada that was populated largely by French settlers.
What is Quebec?
300
The country that had the most colonies and had the most influence culturally in Latin America.
What is Spain?
300
The two civilizations in the Mediterranean world that laid the foundations of Europan - and Western - civilization.
What is Greece and Roman civilizations?
400
Any system of government in which the power and authority to rule belong to a single individual; the opposite of democracy.
What is an autocracy?
400
Type of economy where the government owns or dirercts the means of production and controls the distribution of goods.
What is a command economy?
400
1994 pact that US, Canada, and Mexico signed that removed trade restrictions.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
400
The export that Latin America's economy is mostly based on.
What is agricultural products.
400
The predominant religion in Europe.
What is Chrisitanity?
500
Any system of government in which a small group holds power.
What is an oligarchy?
500
Other names for a command economy depending on how much the government is involved.
What is socialism and communism?
500
The economic activity that employs the most people in both countries.
What is the service industry?
500
The three major native groups of Latin America.
What are the Maya, Aztec, and Inca?
500
The environmental issue that eastern Europe is dealing with due to rapid industrialization during the Soviet Union era and lack of governmental restricitions.