practical and theoretical knowledge about making distinctive visual representations of Earth’s surface in the form of maps.

establishment & maintenance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate and alien society.

regions that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, & have high levels of productivity within diversified economies.

specialization of different people, regions, or countries in particular kinds of economic activities.

environmental determinism

doctrine holding that human activities are controlled by the environment.

attitude that that one’s own race and culture are superior to others’.

geographic settings where new practices have developed, & from which they have subsequently spread.

extension of power of a nation through direct or indirect control of the economic & political life of other territories.

systematic rendering on a flat surface of the geographic coordinates of the features found on Earth’s surface.

assumption that the world is & should be, shaped mainly by men, for men.

a society with a single cultural base and a reciprocal social economy.

regions with undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity.

large landholding that usually specializes in the production of one or more particular crop for market.

semiperipheral regions

regions that are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited & dominated by core regions.

transnational corporations

companies with investments & activities that span international boundaries & with subsidiary companies, factories, offices, or facilities in several countries.

minisystems that have been absorbed into a common political system while retaining their fundamental cultural differences.

an interdependent system of countries linked by economic & political competition.

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Question	Answer
British Dominance
cartography	practical and theoretical knowledge about making distinctive visual representations of Earth’s surface in the form of maps.
colonialism	establishment & maintenance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate and alien society.
core regions	regions that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, & have high levels of productivity within diversified economies.
division of labor	specialization of different people, regions, or countries in particular kinds of economic activities.
environmental determinism	doctrine holding that human activities are controlled by the environment.
ethnocentrism	attitude that that one’s own race and culture are superior to others’.
hearth areas	geographic settings where new practices have developed, & from which they have subsequently spread.
imperialism	extension of power of a nation through direct or indirect control of the economic & political life of other territories.
map projections	systematic rendering on a flat surface of the geographic coordinates of the features found on Earth’s surface.
masculinism	assumption that the world is & should be, shaped mainly by men, for men.
minisystem	a society with a single cultural base and a reciprocal social economy.
peripheral regions	regions with undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity.
plantation	large landholding that usually specializes in the production of one or more particular crop for market.
semiperipheral regions	regions that are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited & dominated by core regions.
transnational corporations	companies with investments & activities that span international boundaries & with subsidiary companies, factories, offices, or facilities in several countries.
United States
world-empire	minisystems that have been absorbed into a common political system while retaining their fundamental cultural differences.
world-systems	an interdependent system of countries linked by economic & political competition.

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