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World Affairs Fill In The Blanks

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Question/Term: What was Diamond's theory?Answer: determines the fate of a culture
Question/Term: What did the of the middle east develop?Answer: They lived in one place, and domesticated plants and .
Question/Term: Why did not take off in New Guinea?Answer: They are to grow efficiently enough, and the only foods they can grow are not nutritious enough.
Question/Term: Where did domesticated animals come from and what do they ?Answer: They came from the Middle east and they provide meat, milk, fur, horsepower, and .
Question/Term: What was Josiah 's theory?Answer: -Saxons must take over the world
Question/Term: What were Josiah Strong's ?Answer: White people were richer, smarter, and more religious than all other people. "God them"
Question/Term: What did Strong write?Answer: Our
Question/Term: Who wrote The Culture of ?Answer: David
Question/Term: What was the theory of The of Nations?Answer: Cultural differences explain a 's success.
Question/Term: Accordind to the of Nations, cultural changes must be led by...Answer: who recognize and accept their own culture's problems
Question/Term: What was the theory expressed in Of Property and ?Answer: Land titling, and therefore stimulating the , is the way out of poverty.
Question/Term: Why would having a property stimulate the economy so much?Answer: If you have a property title, you can use it as colateral for a loan. A loan would help the bank and you could start a business with it. Also, you and your family could all go to work worrying about protecting your house because you legally own it
Question/Term: Why is it so hard to get a property title?Answer: When a is corrupt it costs a lot and takes many steps and bribes to get one.
Question/Term: What else does Of Property and say that countries need to do?Answer: countries need a decent legal system, sound economic policies, and competition banks
Question/Term: What are the 5 of culture?Answer: Government, Religion, , Education, and Family
Question/Term: What are the 4 types of government?Answer: Monarchy, dictatorship, democracy, failed states
Question/Term: Monarchy Answer: a system in which varying amounts of power are held in the hands of one family, passed down through
Question/Term: What are the 2 of monarchy?Answer: and absolute
Question/Term: constututional is...Answer: a monarch's is limited by the people. in most cases, they are nothing more than a symbolic figure.
Question/Term: an monarchy is...Answer: a monarch has final say in most, if not all, . today they exist only in middle east
Question/Term: What is a ?Answer: a single person who holds all power, cannot be removed from without violence
Question/Term: Do dictators hold ?Answer: Often, they do. But they make sure that they always win through fraud, threats,
Question/Term: What is a democracy?Answer: a country gets to pick and re-elect leaders. therefore, the government is expected to do what the people want
Question/Term: What 3 does a democracy need to work?Answer: free , education, and a respect for the rule of law
Question/Term: a failed is...Answer: a with no government or one with no control
Question/Term: What is the only form of protection in a state?Answer: gangs, terrorist
Question/Term: What are the 3 major types of religion ?Answer: Animism, , polytheism
Question/Term: What is ?Answer: the beleif that things (nature, ancestors, etc.) contain spiritual energy and communiate through shamans
Question/Term: Where is today?Answer: africa, china, americans
Question/Term: What is ?Answer: the beleif in one
Question/Term: the 3 monotheistic religions are...Answer: judaism, , and islam
Question/Term: Where is judaism ?Answer: US, , Israel
Question/Term: Where is christianity ?Answer: North and South America, Europe, Africa, Austrailia, Phillipines, East
Question/Term: What are the 4 major types of ?Answer: catholic, orthodox, , protestant
Question/Term: Where is todaY?Answer: North Afica, South + Central Asia, other of Africa, a little in Europe
Question/Term: What are the 2 of Islam?Answer: and Shi'ite
Question/Term: What is ?Answer: the beleif in 2 or more
Question/Term: What are the 2 major types of religions?Answer: , Buddhism
Question/Term: Where are Hinduism and practicedAnswer: Asia
Question/Term: is...Answer: a mix of some religious in India
Question/Term: How was founded?Answer: Siddhartha Gautama broke away from Hinduism to find his own path to
Question/Term: Education is....Answer: people skills from family members, and will probablylive the same life their parents did
Question/Term: Education is.....Answer: people learn from experts in various fields, and have the potential to be smarter than their parents
Question/Term: 3 ways to countries up economically...Answer: amount of government control, economic activity, level of
Question/Term: What did Adam beleive?Answer: he beleived in free market-capitalism, all the government do was protect 3 things....
Question/Term: What, to Adam Smith, should the government protect?Answer: pursuit of self-interest, division of labor, free trade
Question/Term: What did Karl Marx ?Answer: workers should rise up and overthrow the other classes,set up a dictatorship, and divide everything (communist utopia)
Question/Term: What does the US mess with economically?Answer: tariffs, health and safety
Question/Term: What was the between communism and capitalism called?Answer: the cold
Question/Term: Who owns the in American and European free-market style capitalism?Answer: private individuals or
Question/Term: What is the between American and European capitalism?Answer: europeans beleive it's the government's job to provide a comfortable living for everyone, therefore taxes are high, and it's hard to get
Question/Term: Emerging is....Answer: former communist nations away from communism (China, Vietnam)
Question/Term: How are former nations moving away from communism?Answer: by allowing private individuals to make choices, welcoming foriegn investments, more job choices
Question/Term: What is black market ?Answer: its too hard and to start businesses, so everything happens on the black market (no taxes but no protection of health and safety)
Question/Term: a "nationalized" is...Answer: the owns and runs some major industries, and decides how much or how little to share with its citizens
Question/Term: Where are some major economies?Answer: Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Russia, (oil and -rich nations)
Question/Term: Where is communism ?Answer: Cuba and North
Question/Term: what is ? where?Answer: basically nomadic hunting and gathering, some Brazil and Papua New
Question/Term: what is pastoralism? ?Answer: nomadic herding,
Question/Term: what is subsistence agriculture? Answer: simple farming and ranching to raise just enough food for personal/family survival (most common in )
Question/Term: what is agriculture?Answer: selling/trading crops (allows people to not farm)
Question/Term: what is ?Answer: or drilling for natural resources
Question/Term: what are the levels of economies?Answer: (primary), industrial (secondary), high tech/service/"idea" (tertiary)
Question/Term: economies.....Answer: are one level up from traditional economies and buy their natural resources to goods
Question/Term: tertiary ...Answer: have ideas in their countries, and then build factories to make it at low costs, and the smarter you are, the richer you will be
Question/Term: First World countries ...Answer: US and its allies
Question/Term: Second World countries ...Answer: Soviet union and its wealthiest
Question/Term: world countries....Answer: are poor and this term is still used .
Question/Term: What are the Very Countries?Answer: high incomes, diversified economies, good health care and education. includes US, UK, , Germany
Question/Term: VDC=T__________Answer:
Question/Term: What are More Countries?Answer: doing well, but also have an underclass of poor people. include Eastern European countries such as and Russia
Question/Term: MDC=S_______Answer:
Question/Term: What are Countries?Answer: poor, but starting to do better. low incomes and rates. limited health care. China, India, Brazil, Mexico
Question/Term: DC=S________Answer:
Question/Term: what are countries?Answer: poorest of the poor. on less than $1 per day. Sub-saharan Africa, Haiti
Question/Term: UDC=P________Answer: primary and
 
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