world geo ch 2
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- nuclear family
- mom, dad, kids
- extended family
- other family members
- joint family
- then daughter marries and joins her husbands family
- monogamous
- one partner
- polygamous
- many partners
- matriarchal
- led by mother
- patriarchal
- led by father
- capitalism
- the means of production & distribution are primarily owned for profit
- socialism
- partial or almost complete government control and ownership off the economic system
- communism
- total government control of all social, cultural, and economic activities by a communist party. it is the purest form of socialism.
- theory of communism
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everything that happens in this world is caused by money
by karl marx - karl marx
- wrote the theory of communism, and says there are 2 types of people
- proletariat
- poor, taken advantage of
- burgeoisie
- big bosses, rich
- motto of communism
- to each according to ability, to each according to need
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capitalism
(mult.ch) - cares more about the individual
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capitalism
(mult.ch) - which has better products
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communism
(mult.ch) - works best in a young country
- assimilation
- adding, absorbing another culture
- ethnocentric
- judging another culture by your standards
- xenophobia
- fear of strangers
- stereotype
- judging a group as a whole
- anarchy
- nobody has a say, no government, every man for himself
- autocracy
- one prson has power
- dictatorship
- led by military
- oligarchy
- led by a few people
- monarchy
- led by royalty
- direct democracy
- everybody has a say
- representative democracy
- elect people to represent us, then they vote in congress (republic)
- republic
- representative democracy
- theocracy
- government by religion
- plutocracy
- led by the rich and wealthy
- aristocracy
- government by the best
- constitutional monarchy
- constitutional parliament, but led by king or queen
- judaism
- the 1st religion with only one God, very old
- torah
- books of judaism
- islam
- founded by muhammad
- mecca
- holy place of muslims
- koran
- muslim book
- hinduism
- god is braman, and your soul has gone through many lives and duties, reincarnation, cows are sacred
- baghavad gita
- the holy hindu book
- buddhism
- follow gaultama, who was a prince and was shown sadnes hen enlightened.
- nirvana
- when you have overcome all wants, you have reached this, happiness
- montreal protocol
- said countries must stop making CFC's
- kyoto protocol
- in 1997, 160 countries got together and 55 agreed to cut their level of emissions by 5%
- global warming
- caused by burning coal, gas, hits polar latitudes
- dependency theory
- says worldwide economic pattern established by industrial revolution sitll persists today
- lifeboat ethics
- wabout hether or not the wealthy should rescue the "drowning" poor
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gross domestic product
GDP - total output of goods and services a country produces for home use divided by the country's population.
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purchasing power parity
PPP - applies standardized dollar price weights to the quantities of final goods and services provided in a given economy
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human development index
HDI - a scale that considers attributes of quality of life
- agricultural revolution
- the domestication of plants and animals, people grew their own, irrigation
- industrial revolution
- around 1700, an explosion of technology in britain, many innovations