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| The Grouping of European countries to further economic, and political growth |
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| combination of different cultural practices into one blended, uniform cultural practices that do not allow easy identification of characteristics of many cultures |
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| The Warm Ocean currents in Europe |
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| mild allows for growing of many crops |
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| approach in study, philosophy, or practice taht focuses on human values and concerns |
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| the nation-state determines an official language, system of law, manages a currency system, uses a bureaucracy to order elements, foster loyalties |
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| devotion to one's own nation, doing everything for the good of your nation |
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| concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well being of its citizens |
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| mass genocides of the Jews, by the Nazi Germans during WW II |
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| standoff between US and the Soviet Union, to see which would be more powerful, helped other countries promote their types of governments |
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| to seperate from religious or spiritual connection or influences |
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| European Christian reform movement that established protestantism as a constituent branch of contemporary christianity |
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| a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, was a system for ordering society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor |
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| treaty signed on June 14, 1985, between five of the ten members of the European Union, made it very easy to travel through Europe |
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| transcending established national boundaries or spheres of interest |
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| common agricultural program |
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| combines a direct subsidy payment for crops and cultivated land with price support mechanisms, including minimum price, import tariffs and quotas on certain goods from outside the EU |
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| goal to remove every ethnic group but one, trying to make the area completely uniform |
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| Geopolitical term used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or non cooperative with each other |
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| The statutory granting of powers from the central governments of a sovereign state to governments at a subnational level |
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| large rural estates, were granted to colonists as a reward for conquering territory and people for Spain |
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| slums of Brazil, unplanned, would often appear overnight, very poor quality of living |
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| termperate land lies between 3,00 and 6,500 feet |
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| cool land, lies between 6,500 and 12,000 feet |
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| cool land, lies between 6,500 and 12,000 feet |
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| hot land, extends up from the lowlands to about 3,000 feet |
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| frozen land, lies above 12,000 feet |
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| people of mixed European, African, and indigenous descent |
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| radical catholic movement which wanted redistribution of the wealth |
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| argues taht existing or past international economic arrangemnts created by former colonial pwers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements |
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| broke up some of the large landholdings and distributed them among poor landless farmers |
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| revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, group has been in a declared war with Mexican State since 1994 |
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| what males measure themselves by, considers manliness to consist of honor, respectablility, fatherhood, household leadership, attractiveness to women, and ability to be a charming storyteller |
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| 1823, US wrote the Monroe Doctrine to tell Europe taht US would allow no further colinization in Americas |
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| what males measure themselves by, considers manleness to consist of honor, respectability, fatherhood, household leadership, attractiveness to women, and ability to be a charming storyteller |
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| what women hold themselves by, try to be like Virgin Mary |
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| Nort American Free Trade Agreement, reduced barriers to trade, created an expanded market for goods and services produced in North America, established clear and mutually advantageous trade rules |
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| a symbolic relocation of a capital city to a geographically or demographically advantagous position either strategically, or economically |
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| phase of economic growth, in which it was dominated by Europeans |
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| the drug trade coming out of Colombia |
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| vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes |
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| fertile South American Lowlands |
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| America's thoughts to explore new frontiers, and bring law to them |
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| moving away from an industrialized economy, America went from an industrialized economy to a service economy |
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| Being of Spanish herritige |
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| a native or inhabitant of the province of Quebec |
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| Rain which is acidic, due to the pollution in the atmosphere |
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| what your economic system is dependent on |
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| the makeups of your economy or political system |
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| the forceful relocation of thousands of Indians, causing countless deaths |
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| Genetically modified organisms |
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| when they genetically alter the DNA to effect them in whatever ways they want |
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| refers to the gap between individuals, households, business and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels with regard both to their opportunities to acces information and communications technologies and to their use of the internet for a wide variety of activities |
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| term to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities |
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| non-contributory transfer programs seeking to prevent the poor or those vulnerable to shocks and poverty from falling below a certain poverty line |
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| terms reffering to the displacement that results when wealthier people acquire property in low income and working class communities |
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| group that gained control of Russia during the post-revolution civil war, overthrowing the capitalist society and creating Communist society |
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| describes a range of groups across history |
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| an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit |
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| an economy where supply and price are regulated by teh government rather than market forces |
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| a system of social orgainization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self perpetuating political party |
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| an Emporer or king, former Emporers of Russia |
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| public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities |
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| a hypothesis which suggests that an empire can extend itself beyond its ability to maintain or expand its military and economic commitments |
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| buffer zones between the Soviet Sphere of Influence and the US sphere of influence |
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| area effected by either the Soviet Union, or the US during the Cold War |
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| a form of power structure in which power effectivly rests with a small number of peopl |
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| political movement within the Communist part of the Soviet Union during 1980's |
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| soil at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years |
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| is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency of public service from the public sector to the prive sector |
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| a term used to identify a lower social class, usually the working class |
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| the process that enables the state owned enterprises to act like market-oriented firms |
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| state in Norther Eurasia, what the Soviet Union became |
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| a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another |
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| group of farmers including the Rus, that emerged from what is now Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus and moved east founding many settlements including Kiev and Moscow |
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| economy where everyone is held as equal, and theoretically gets equal pay |
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| dominant empire, fought US during the cold war, was comunist |
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| also known as boreal forest, characterized by coniferous forests |
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| Biome where tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons |
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| high skilled workers who do menial labor |
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| garndens in the Urban region to grow food |
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| a grouping of Brazil, Russia, India and China to refer to how they are all in the similar state of economic development |
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