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| An imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, England. |
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| The average weather a place has over a period of 20 to 30 years |
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| The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place |
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| Imaginary circle around the earth's surface at 0 degrees. |
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| Dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world |
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| The movement of customs or ideas from one place to another |
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| The concept of companies or ideas that spread worldwide, causing countries to become more interconnected |
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| The largest main landmasses of the globe |
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| An often oversimplified or biased mental picture held to characterize the typical individual of a group |
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| The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the dominant/prevailing culture |
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| The belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture |
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| The belief that one racial group is naturally superior to the other |
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| Pride and loyalty to one's country |
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| The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or peopl |
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| The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foregin countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies |
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| The natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc. resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature |
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| When a country organizes factories, technology, and workers to manufacture (usually mass-produce) things for sale |
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| Adoption of western culture including, government, food, clothing, religion and customs |
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| Something that is originally from an area, or grows and lives in a certain environment naturally; native people |
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| To allow a colony to become self-governing or independent |
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| The level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, group, or nation |
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| Degree of physical and psychological well-being felt by an individual or a group of people |
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| Data pertaining to the characteristics of human populations |
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| The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society |
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| Of, or relating to, or located in a city |
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| Of, or relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; of or pertaining to agriculture |
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| A country completely surrounded by land with no access to an ocean or sea |
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This person would greatly accept cookies tomorrow for making
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DANIEL STROMFELD (PONCHO)!!!! SKLSJKLJKLDS! COOKIES!!!! AHHH! CHOCO CHOCO CHIP!!
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| The WAY OF LIFE of a group of people with common traditions, interests, and beliefs |
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| The RULES OF BEHAVIOR for a certain culture |
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| The scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development and beliefs of humans |
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| Any practice or pattern of behavior regularly performed in a set manner |
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| A ceremony performed to show or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions |
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| The exchanging of commodities (things) for other commodities (things) or money |
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| A government tax on imports |
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| Any crop that is easy to sell. Gathered directly for market and are not for feeding livestock |
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| Producing various kinds of crops and goods so that a nation is not dependent on a single export |
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| A type of farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for sale |
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| Goal 1) Setting up stable governments and 2) Producing many goods and services |
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| The number of years a person is expected to live |
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| The number of deaths occuring in the first year of life (The number is out of 1,000) |
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| The percentage of a country's population that can read over the age of 15 |
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| Majority community in Rwanda, during the colonial period suffered as 2nd class citizens. With independence, Hutu gained power |
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| Rwanda's largest minority community, which Belgian colonists had favored until Hutu took over power in the early 1960's |
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| Youth militia of the Hutu extremists trained by organizers to carry out the genocide |
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| A group of people escaping a harmful situation: poverty, war, or harsh governments |
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| The deliberate extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group |
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| An international group of nations that promise to preserve world peace and to cooperate |
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| A body of citizens (Not the regular military of a country) |
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| The form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a ruler |
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| Any areas in which few forms of life can exist because of lack of water, they are usually sandy |
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| The transformation of usable or habitable land into desert |
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| A change of government caused by a group taking control by force |
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| Militiamen primarily members of nomadic "Arab" tribes |
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| 1) a penalty placed on a nation for breaking international law or 2) a policy to persuade/pressure a country to follow international law |
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| The legally sanctioned system of racial segregation that existed in South Africa |
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| Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is given to the common people |
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| A situation in which the people, countries etc. become friendly with each other again after arguing or fighting |
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| Land that is far away from an area's coast or border |
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| The land next to the sea or ocean |
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Being without moisture; extremely dry
(Mrs. Moisei's personality) |
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| A picture or decoration made by pressing small, colored pieces of tiles, stone, or glass into a wall or surface |
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| A person who speaks for God. Regarded as inspired teacher or leader |
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| Something that is 1) concerned with religion or religious 2) worthy of respect or dedication |
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| A special day of prayer or rest |
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| A period of time when a person gives up something important in order to focus on spiritual thoughts and for self-purification |
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| Money, food, or other donations given to the poor or needy |
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| A group of people that is separated from a larger religious family/ group becaue of beliefs |
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| An ancient country in the Middle East, located on the east coast of the Mediterranean; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism |
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| A country established by the UN in 1948 following the British withdrawal from Palestine |
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| A Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
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| In the Middle East, this term refers to land that once was part of Jordan (West Bank & East Jerusalem), Egypt (Gaza Strip), and Syria (Golan Heights) that was captured by Israel in the 1967 |
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| Violent uprisings (1987 and 2000) by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to protest the Israeli occupation |
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| 1299-1922 - A large and powerful empire that was ruled by a sultan |
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| Not religious or spiritual |
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| A form of government in which God (or any deity) is recognized as the supreme ruler |
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| People, or nations, which are joined together for some common cause or purpose |
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| A separation or division of something into different parts |
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| Accepting as true and following all the traditional beliefs and laws of a religion |
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| When the existing government is overthrown and replaced with a new one |
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| Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause |
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| Agreements in which one country concedes, or gives up, their potential or actual oil reserves to another country in exchange for a fixed amount of money |
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| A group of companies or countries acting together to control the supply and price of certain goods or services |
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| The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - founded in 1960, by nations that export large amounts of petroleum |
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| The belief that religious or political guidelines/rules should be implemented literally |
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| A strict Islamist group that took over the government of Afghanistan in 1996 |
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| The name given to an international Islamic fundamentalist campaign of independent cells that all agree on reducing outside influence on Islamic affiars |
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| Usually refers to the color of a person's skin |
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| Refers to a person's cultural practices, background or heritage |
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| A person of mixed racial ancestry, meaning a mix of native and foreign ancestors |
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| A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of African and Caucasian ancestors |
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| The number of people living per unit of an area |
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| A way to rank people in order of status |
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| A language that is a combination of a European language and one or more other languages |
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| An ethnic group in Central America whose ancestry is African and Caribbean |
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| A Spanish terms used to indicate a person who has African and American-Indian ancestry |
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| A large group or chain or islands |
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| Specific features on the earth's surface |
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| Spanish conquerors of foreign lands during the colonial era |
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| A system of organization in which people or things are divided into levels of importance |
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| A group of people who have a particular position in society; word comes from Portuguese words casta = race and casto = pure |
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| Spaniard born in Spain but living in New Spain who usually owned land and held political power |
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| Spaniards born and raised in New Spain, i.e., the children of Peninsulares - typically wealthy but with less political power and status than Peninsulares |
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| A tropical forest in an area of high annual rainfall |
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| Process of cutting down and removal of all or most of the trees |
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| The natural elements of your surroundings |
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| Warm all year with a wet and a dry season |
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| A South American Indian culture who established an empire in Peru |
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| An Indian culture inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemale, and Belize |
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| An Indian culture in central Mexico |
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| A religion practiced in Caribbean countries |
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| A derogatory term for a country that is 1) politically unstable, 2)Usually dependent on one export, such as bananas, and 3) ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and corrupt clique |
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| Leadership or influence exercised by one nation over others. Can describe aggression or expansionism by large nations over smaller nations in effort to achieve world domination |
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| Anything concealed; secret; disguised |
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| To take possession of something for one's own use |
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| The study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other |
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| The imaginary parallel lines that circle the earth parallel to the Equator - measures the distance north and south of the Equator in degrees |
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| The set of imaginary lines, called Meridians, that run from the North Pole to the South Pole measuring distances east or west of the Prime Meridian |
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