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| Region south of the Sahara Desert in Africa; includes some of the worlds richest deposits of minerals, yet one of the largest undeveloped regions in world | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Entrance to the Persian Gulf from the Indian ocean, strategic focus in world affairs for thousands of years, 25% of world's oil production passed through it | Strait of Hormuz |
| Policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate countries politically, economically, or socially. Led to a number of European empires around the world. | Imperialism |
| Economic system in which government owns some factors of production and answers economic questions. Seen as offering benefits to less fortunate. | Socialism |
| Ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another.social standing is based on degrees of wealth, prestige, education and power. | Social Mobility |
| View that the present well-being of mankind should predominate over religious considerations in civil or public affairs. | Secularism |
| This social revolution was also known as the New Stone age where people changed from hunting and gathering food to domesticating animals and cultivating land as farmers. | Neolithic Agricultural Revolution |
| Adolf Hitler used fascism to create thei type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite germany in the 1930's. | Nazism |
| This early civilization included Mexico and Central America and it was based on sedentary agriculture and the cultivation of corn and food production. | Mesoamerica |
| An economic system based on the manor and lands including a village and surrounding acreage which were administered by a lord.Developed during the Middle Ages to increase agricultural production. | Manorialism |
| The spread of ideas, diseases, products, and people between the lands. An example of this wass the trade of silk and the spread of the Bubonic Plague, and the Islamic religion along the Silk Road. | Spatial Diffusion |
| An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and supply and demand answer the economic questions of what, when, why, and how to produce. | Capitalism |
| Found along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, this was the first early river civilization. The cities in this area were governed by city-states and used irrigation to produce their crops. | Fertile Crescent |
| A political and economic system where factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state. | Communism |
| A religious reform movement which challenged political and ecclesiastical authority of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. | Reformation |
| An intellectual movement concentrated in France during the 1700's developed rational laws to describe social behavior and applied their findings in support of human rights and liberal economic theories. | Enlightenment |
| During this turning point in history people changed from hunting and gathering food to domesticating animals and cultivating land as farmers. | Development of Farming |
| A system of governmant characterized by strict social and economic control and a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator. First founded in Italy by Mussolini. | Fascism |
| The era marked by revival of art, architecture, thought, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. | European Renaissance |
| A political system based on the rule of local lords bound to a king by ties of loyalty. It developed as a local defense system against invaders in western Europe, China, and Japan. | Feudalism |
| A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. | Holocaust |
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