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| A group of people who have a common origin and share a language and a history. |
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| Practices handed down from the past. |
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| A group of people whose culture, race, or ethnic origin is different from that of most of the people in the region. |
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The group in a society that controls most of the wealth and power. This is not always the largest group in numbers. |
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| Scientists that study the interaction of people and society. |
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| The way of life of people who share similar beliefs and customs. |
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Your values are centered or based on those of your own particular ethnic group. |
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The adoption of one group's culture traits by another group. |
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| How a culture spreads its knowledge and skills from one area to another. |
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| Limits are set on how much power government officials have so that they cannot take advantage of the people. Even those making the laws have to obey them. |
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| A limited government where the people govern themselves. The people govern themselves by voting individually (direct democracy) on issues or they elect representatives to make and enforce the laws (representative democracy). |
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| The power belongs to the ruler or rulers. No rules or laws exist to limit what the ruler can or cannot do. |
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| One person ruling all the people in a region and their power is unlimited. |
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| Kings or queens born into ruling families. Theri power is inherited and unlimited. |
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Limited government with a monarch but not an absolute ruler. There are laws that limit the power of the monarch (Great Britain with a monarch but also a parliament and laws). |
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People meet their needs on the basis of their customs. Ex. In Africa children learn their trade from their parents so the same family always does the same work. |
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Government makes all the decisions. Individuals have little or no say about basic economic questions. Ex. In Communist countries questions such as what and how much to produce and what to charge is decided by the government |
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Individuals determine for themselves what to produce, who will want it and how much to produce and how much to charge. This is a free enterprise system with suppy and demand. |
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Most nations have this. Ex. US has market economy but the governmnet regulates some prices and sets rules on industries. |
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