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| the movement of people from one area to another to settle permanently. |
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| factors that cause immigrants to leave their old location, such as poverty, oppression, political conflicts, and environmental factors. |
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| factors that lure immigrants to a new location, such as freedom, economic opportunity, and cultural ties. |
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| factors that concern how people organize into social groups, such as social classes or religious groups. |
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| factors concerning governments, policies, wars, and citizens' rights, which may cause people to migrate |
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| when people in a society suffer from poverty or lack of opportunity, this pushes some of them to migrate to other areas where new economic opportunities exist. |
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| factors based on changes in the environment such as droughts or desertification, which cause people to migrate. |
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| In the 1840s, Irelands faced an environmental disaster when its potato crop was struck by a blight, making potatoes inedible. As a result, more than a million starved to death. |
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| the region of Africa just south of the Sahara Desert, which has recently undergone a series of severe droughts, believed by scientist to have been caused by climatic changes. |
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| the trade between 1500 and the 1800s which saw millions of Africans forcibly taken from their homelands and forcibly shipped to the West Indies, Brazil, or the U.S. |
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| any narrow area of land connecting two continents or land masses during the last Ice Age, connecting Asia & Alaska where the Bering Strait is located today. |
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