Significant Terms
System of government in which a small group holds power.
What is an oligarchy?
People that share a common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin.
What is an ethnic group?
The distribution of population by age and gender.
What is a population pyramid?
Economic system in which businesses are privately owned and production and prices are determined by supply and demand.
What is a market economy?
A geographic boundary between two cultures.
What is a cultural boundary?
The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact.
What is globalization?
Left Hinduism and started Buddhism?
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The movement of people from place to place.
What is migration?
Economic system of resource management in which the government supports and regulates enterprise through decisions that affect the marketplace.
What is a mixed economy?
A form of government in which powers are divided between the national and state or provincial governments.
What is a federal system?
System of government in which those who rule are regarded as divinely inspired.
What is a theocracy?
3 things that make up a culture
What is knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors?
Caste System
What is Hinduism
Economic system that relies on customs, history, and time-honored beliefs.
What is a traditional economy?
A region that includes a central city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is a metropolitan area?
Economic system in which factors of production are privately owned.
What is capitalism?
#1 thing that ties a culture together
What is language?
The average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land.
What is population density?
Economic system of resource management in which decision about production and distribution of goods and services are made by a central authority.
What is a command economy?
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
What is nationalism?
Only 1 God.
What is Monotheistic?
The way of life of a group of people who share similar culture traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items.
What is culture?
An increase in a population in cities and towns from rural areas.
What is urbanization?
A system in which private individuals or groups have the right to own property or businesses and make a profit with limited government interference.
What is free enterprise?
Political system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens.
What is a democracy?