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SCA 2 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nomads | people who move place to place with herds of animlas |
| Communist government | a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology |
| Oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. |
| Monarchy | from of government in witch a king or queen inherits the right to rule |
| Direct Democracy | people decide to vote on, form consensus |
| Representative Democracy | republic, or psephocracy is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. |
| Brazil’s Escarpment | is a major geological formation that runs along much of the eastern coast of Brazil south of the city of Salvador. |
| Tyranny | cruel and oppressive government or rule |
| Tierra Fria | (Spanish for cold land) are mountain locations where high elevation results in a markedly cooler climate than that encountered in the lowlands at a comparable latitude. |
| Tierra Templada | (Spanish for temperate land) is a pseudoclimatological term used in Latin America to refer to places |
| Tierra Caliente | (Spanish for Hot Land) is a cultural and geographical region in southern Mexico that comprises some low-elevation areas |
| Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles. |
| Region | an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries. |
| Climates | |
| Steppe | |
| Tundra | |
| Tropical | |
| Savanna | |
| Mediterranean | |
| Culture |