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Cultures-Velasco
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Limited Government | Leader has limited power; country has a constitution or laws to protect citizens rights |
| Unlimited Government | Leader has total power, leader chooses to rule with his/her or the citizens best interest in mind |
| Multicultural | When several cultures come together; many cultures |
| Monarchy | Ruled by Queen or King; leaders born into power |
| Dictatorship | Ruled by one or a small group; rules with force |
| Democracy | Ruled by many, leaders are elected by citizens |
| Life Expectancy | The average period that a person is expected to live |
| Infant Mortality | # of deaths of children under the age of 1 |
| Literacy Rate | The percentage of people who are able to read and write |
| GDP: Gross Domestic Product | The amount of money of all goods and services produced |
| Developed Country | HIGH: Life expectancy, literacy rate, GDP LOW: Infant mortality |
| Underdeveloped Country | HIGH: Infant mortality LOW: Life expectancy, literacy rate, GDP |
| Economy | Having to do with a countries resources or use of money, including goods, services, production, trade, labor |
| Cultural Diffusion | How culture spreads |
| Nationalism | Having pride and a sense of loyalty to one's country |
| Free Market Economy | Private business owners are in control of pricing on goods and services |
| de facto | actually; in reality |
| archipelago | group or chain of islands |
| tsunami | a huge wave that gets higher as it approaches the coast; has the ability to wipe out an entire city |
| loess | a fine-grained, fertile soil deposited by the wind; yellow-brown silt |
| dynasty | line of rulers from a single family |
| shogun | military leader; Minamoto Yoritomo was Japan's first shogun |
| samurai | landowning warriors; supported the shogun |
| sphere of influence | an area of a country where a single foreign power has been granted exclusive trading rights |
| communism | a system of unlimited government that controls all economic goods and services |
| urbanization | when a city grows larger and spreads into nearby areas |
| megalopolis | supersized urban area |
| trade deficit | occurs when the value of a country's imports is higher than the value of its exports; opposite of a trade surplus |
| trade surplus | occurs when a country exports more products than it imports;opposite of trade deficit |
| emperor | a sovereign (supreme) ruler of great power and rank; ruler of an empire |
| Mandate of Heaven | the belief that the Gods have blessed a person to rule of the land |
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