(Cultural Diffusion) when ideas, products, and even cultural traits can spread from one culture to another.

83- Columbian Exchange

when new plants, animals, ideas and even diseases were exchanged between the peoples of the Americas and those of Europe.

84- Cultural Convergence

when different cultures exchange ideas and become more similar.

85- Cultural Divergence

when different cultural influences cause an area to divide into separate parts.

86- Pandemic

an epidemic over a wide geographic area.

87. Traditional Ways

these societies prefer to do things much as their ancestors have done.

88. Cultural Diffusion

the spread of ideas, good, technologies, and cultural traits from one society to another.

89. Genocide

when a dominant group tries to completely eliminate a religious or ethnic group -The mass murder of a people.

90. Terrorism

the use of threats of terror against innocent civilians to gain attention and achieve a group’s aims

91. Technology

the use of materials, tools, and skills to meet human needs.

the development of new technologies

93. GPS

94. Desalinization

the removal of salt from ocean water

95. Constitutional monarchy

kingdom in which the ruler’s powers are limited by a constitution

96. Direct Democracy

a form of government in which people vote on policy initiatives directly

97. Representative Democracy

government where the people rule through elected representatives

98. Dictatorship

government in which an individual or groups holds complete power

99. Political Power

ability of a person or group to determine the policy of a government to serve their individual or group interest

100. Political Region