Civics
This type of limited government lets citizens elect representatives to make decisions for them.
What is representative democracy?
Elements of culture include these, such as religion, art, music, customs, and beliefs.
What are values / beliefs / social structure?
These tools help locate places and compare regions, like political and physical maps.
This is the next-best alternative given up when making a choice due to scarcity.
What is opportunity cost?
This world religion has major social and political impacts in regions like the Middle East.
What is Islam?
A key disadvantage of unlimited governments like dictatorships is this, where leaders suppress opposition and limit freedoms.
What is lack of individual rights / suppression of dissent?
A sovereign nation has this key characteristic: full control over its territory and decisions without outside rule.
What is autonomy / independence?
Physical characteristics like access to rivers and fertile soil influence where people choose to do this.
What is settlement/human settlement?
In a market economy, what to produce is decided mainly by this force of consumer demand and prices.
What is supply and demand?
The breakup of this superpower in 1991 led to the creation of new independent nations.
What is the Soviet Union?
Nation-states interact with each other mainly through these peaceful methods, like treaties and alliances.
What are diplomacy / negotiations?
Migration contributes to this by bringing new languages, foods, and traditions to a region.
What is cultural diversity?
Climate and vegetation affect this in a region, such as farming and types of jobs people have.
What is economic growth / way people make a living?
Specialization occurs because regions focus on what they have most of, like this in oil-rich Middle East countries.
What are natural resources?
Independence movements and democratic reforms are examples of these changes in nations.
What are political and cultural changes?
This historic event helped lead to the founding of Israel in 1948 due to the need for a Jewish homeland after persecution.
What is the Holocaust / end of World War II?
Cultural diffusion happens fastest through these activities, like trade routes and immigration.
What are trade / migration / conflict?
People migrate for reasons like this economic factor (jobs) or this political one (escaping persecution)
What are economic opportunity / political freedom?
This measure of economic output per person helps compare standards of living between countries.
What is GDP per capita / Gross Domestic Product per capita?
Apartheid in South Africa was ended through international pressure and this type of internal resistance.
What is non-violent protest / revolts / negotiations?
This international document sets out fundamental human rights and has influenced governments worldwide.
What is the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights?
In this region profile (like the Middle East), diverse ethnic and religious groups often lead to both cooperation and tension.
What is cultural pluralism / diverse cultural groups?
Modifying the environment through deforestation can lead to this negative consequence, like loss of biodiversity and soil erosion.
What is environmental degradation / climate change?
Government regulations can have this trade-off: protecting consumers/environment but potentially slowing business growth
What are costs and benefits / trade-offs?
The decline of British colonialism contributed to conflicts in places like India due to ethnic/religious tensions.
What is the Partition of India?