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| British Dominance |
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| cartography | practical and theoretical knowledge about making distinctive visual representations of Earth’s surface in the form of maps.
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| colonialism | establishment & maintenance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate and alien society.
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| core regions | regions that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, & have high levels of productivity within diversified economies.
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| division of labor | specialization of different people, regions, or countries in particular kinds of economic activities.
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| environmental determinism | doctrine holding that human activities are controlled by the environment.
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| ethnocentrism | attitude that that one’s own race and culture are superior to others’.
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| hearth areas | geographic settings where new practices have developed, & from which they have subsequently spread.
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| imperialism | extension of power of a nation through direct or indirect control of the economic & political life of other territories.
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| map projections | systematic rendering on a flat surface of the geographic coordinates of the features found on Earth’s surface.
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| masculinism | assumption that the world is & should be, shaped mainly by men, for men.
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| minisystem | a society with a single cultural base and a reciprocal social economy.
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| peripheral regions | regions with undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity.
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| plantation | large landholding that usually specializes in the production of one or more particular crop for market.
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| semiperipheral regions | regions that are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited & dominated by core regions.
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| transnational corporations | companies with investments & activities that span international boundaries & with subsidiary companies, factories, offices, or facilities in several countries.
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| United States |
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| world-empire | minisystems that have been absorbed into a common political system while retaining their fundamental cultural differences.
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| world-systems | an interdependent system of countries linked by economic & political competition.
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