Resources
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of these nonrenewable resources.
What are fossil fuels?
This Chinese dynasty is known for expanding trade along the Silk Road.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This type of war is fought indirectly, through use (or exploitation) of other states and armies.
What is proxy war?
This word describes the fundamental aspect of economics: unlimited wants and limited resources.
What is scarcity?
This is the process of learning norms and values.
What is socialization?
This type of energy comes from sources like wind, water, and solar power.
What is renewable energy?
Roads, military garrisons, and the spread of this language helped unify the Roman Empire.
What is Latin?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism globally.
What is containment?
This type of economic system relies on supply and demand with limited government control.
What is a market economy?
This term describes positions people hold in society, and how they are viewed in comparison to others.
What is status?
Cutting down forests on a large scale is known as this.
What is deforestation?
This system allowed local rulers to govern while loyal to an imperial power; it was used by ancient empires and in 19th century "new" imperialism.
What is indirect rule?
This western military alliance was founded in 1949 and remains in use today.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? (NATO)
These are the three fundamental questions of economics.
What are what to produce, how to produce it, and for home to produce it?
This American sociologist focused on evaluating the extent to which problems in society were "personal troubles" vs "public issues."
Who is C. Wright Mills?
This international agreement, signed in 2016, aims to reduce global carbon emissions.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This policy used in the Han Dynasty selected government officials based on exams and merit.
What is the civil service system?
This event in 1989 symbolized the end of Cold War division.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This statistic measures income inequality within a nation, scaled from 0 (complete equality) to 1 (all income controlled by one person).
What is the Gini coefficient?
This sociologist studied how society shapes individual behavior, in particular focusing on statistical trends about suicide.
Who is Émile Durkheim?
Countries rich in valuable raw materials such as oil or minerals but that have weak economies and political systems may face this “curse.”
What is the "resource curse"?
This political and military leader, born Gaius Octavius in 63 BCE, became the first emperor of Rome in 27 BCE.
Who is Augustus?
U.S. intervention in this country in 1973 led to the assassination of its elected president and two decades of military rule.
What is Chile?
This index created by the UN for measuring development combines income, education levels, and life expectancy.
What is the Human Development Index? (HDI)
Sociologist and political activist W.E.B. du Bois was the first African-American to graduate from this prestigious American university.
What is Harvard University?