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Quiz 5 Vocab
Ch. 2 Section 3
Term | Definition |
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culture | how people in a region live, behave, and think |
civilization | a society that has a highly developed culture and technology |
communal | shared |
gacho | latin american cowboy |
culture region | areas that are unified by common cultural traits, or characteristics |
kimono | traditional Japanese clothing |
monotheistic religion | those with a belief in one deity |
polytheistic religion | those with a belief in many deities |
economy | a system in which people produce, sell, and buy things |
capital | a country's wealth and infrastructure |
entrepreneurship | creativity and risk needed to develop new goods and services |
free enterprise economy | privately owned businesses create goods that people buy in markets |
gross domestic product (GDP) | total value of goods and services that a country produces |
government | an organization that keeps order, sets rules, and provides services for a society |
citizen | a person who lives within a territory of a government and is granted certain rights |
democracy | people elect representatives to govern them |
human rights | common standard of achievement for all people and all nations |
symbol | an object that stands for something else |