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| The movement of greater numbers of people into cities |
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| Human factors affect where people settle, like having a capital city at a central location; location along transportation routes; new technology can override physical barriers, and natural resources can attract settlers to an otherwise unfavorable area |
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| How many people live in a given area |
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| A visual that compares the number of males and females in a society and it includes the average ages of its members. Each group will be represented by a different bar |
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| A slum settlement where poor people live in dwellings made from scrap materials—such as plywood, corrugated metal and plastic sheets. |
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| The major reasons for migration that either “push” people out of their old location while “pull” factors lure migrants to a new location. Ex: push- poverty, political conflict, environmental factors, oppression. Ex: pull- freedom, economic opportunity (jobs) cultural ties |
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Concern how people organize into groups, such as religious groups.
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When they need to migrate due to being persecuted for being members of a particular ethnic group. Ex: Rwandans needed to flee to neighboring countries to avoid being massacred |
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when religious minorities have to leave a place due to their beliefs |
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| Migration due to the environment, like a drought, crop failures, floods, fires, earthquakes that force people to migrate. |
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| When a migration is forced such as the Atlantic Slave Trade. This migration has accompanied war and the persecution of people throughout most of history. |
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| Natural features that were once a migration to human migration. Examples are mountains, deserts or dense forests. |
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| A natural feature where people used to be able to walk from one land mass to another, like across the Bering Strait now that used to be a land bridge from Asia to North America ( Alaska area) |
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How something diffuses or spreads |
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| (Cultural Diffusion) when ideas, products, and even cultural traits can spread from one culture to another. |
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| When new plants, animals, ideas and even diseases were exchanged between the peoples of the Americas and those of Europe. |
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When different cultures exchange ideas and become more similar.
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| When different cultural influences cause an area to divide into separate parts. |
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| An epidemic over a wide geographic area. |
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These societies prefer to do things much as their ancestors have done |
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| When a dominant group tries to completely eliminate a religious or ethnic group -The mass murder of a people. |
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| The use of threats of terror against innocent civilians to gain attention and achieve a group’s aims |
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| The use of materials, tools, and skills to meet human needs. |
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| The development of new technologies |
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| A spatial information system that merge information from satellites and land base sources |
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| The removal of salt from ocean water |
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| Kingdom in which the ruler’s powers are limited by a constitution |
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| A form of government in which people vote on policy initiatives directly |
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| government where the people rule through elected representatives |
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| Government in which an individual or groups holds complete power |
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| ability of a person or group to determine the policy of a government to serve their individual or group interest |
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| a geographic area that is run by a specific government and has its own laws; there are various levels of political regions, such as: a country, a state, districts within a state, and cities within a state |
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