a set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication
What is language
100
a legal system that was the physical speration of different races into different geographic areas
What is apartheid
100
A politically organized territory that is administered by sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states.
What is state
100
region of great cities located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban heart, dating to 3500 BCE, and which was founded in the Fertile Crescent
What is Mesopotamia
100
Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
What is Agribusiness
200
local or regional characteristics of a language. While accent refers to the pronunciation differences of a standard language, a dialect, in addition to pronunciation variation, has distinctive grammar and vocabulary
What is dialect
200
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.
What is blockbusting
200
a principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states.
What is sovereignty
200
The internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting
What is site
200
A grass yielding grain for food.
What is Cereal Grain
300
group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin
What is language family
300
an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
What is Centripital Force
300
Nation that does not have a state.
What is stateless nation
300
The external locational attributes of a place; its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places
What is situation
300
the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert
What is desertification
400
language without any native speakers
What is extinct language
400
Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
What is ethnicity
400
representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization
What is scale
400
Area of the city with a relatively uniform land use
What is zone
400
Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
What is double cropping
500
languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese) that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed
What is romance languages
500
the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
What is self-determination
500
In political geography, a country's or more local community's sense of propertyand attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended
What is territoriality
500
Movement of upper and middle class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as the deteriorating social conditions.
What is Suburbanization
500
Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.