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Stone Age |
Learned to make stone tools and weapons, learned to control fire and language - nomads |
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First Agricultural Revolution |
Stone Age people learned to farm and to domesticate animals |
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Development of Farming |
Tigris-Euphrates Valley of the Middle-East in 6000 b.c. |
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First Civilizations (where located) |
River Valleys such as Nile, Indus, and Huang He |
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Who was powerful in 1300? |
China Africa and America |
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Second Agricultural Revolution |
New Plants such as corn and potatoes helped to produce a wider variety of crops, improved farming methods and new farm machines such as the seed drill allowed farmers to grow more food - rapid population growth, fewer people working in fields |
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Industrial Revolution |
Machines replaced hand tools, steam and electricity took place of human and animal power - entrepreneurs |
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Age of Imperialism |
Changed power relationships around the globe |
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Nationalism |
Pride in and loyalty to one's country |
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Urbanization |
Growth of cities |
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Imperialism |
Control by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
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Westernization |
Adoption of western culture - Europeans encouraging Christianity, government/law, food, clothing |
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Capital |
Money |
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Suffrage |
Right to vote |
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Entrepreneurs |
Person who risks his or her money to set up a business |
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Raw Materials |
The basic material from which a product is made |
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Industrialization |
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale |
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Arms Race |
A competition between nations for superiority in the development of weapons |
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Superpowers |
A very powerful and influential nation |
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Cash Crop |
Crop that can be sold on the world market |
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Modernization |
Changes in a nation that enable it to set up a stable government and produce a high level of goods and services |
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Tariff |
Tax on imported goods |
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Privatization |
Selling state-owned industries to private investors |
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Literacy |
Ability to read and write |
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Overpopulation |
More people than the amount of available resources |
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Debt |
Money that is due |
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Population Density |
Average number of people living in a given area |
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Economic Diversity |
Producing crops and goods so that a nation is no longer dependent on a single export |
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Non-proliferation Treaty |
A treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons |
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Veto |
Rejecting a law |
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Poverty |
Extremely poor |
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Refugees |
Person who leaves homeland to seek safety |
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Technology |
Skills and tools a people use |
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The Cold War (causes, end) |
Led to arms race between US and Soviet Union, ended with the collapse of Soviet Union |
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Drug Trade |
Caused by poverty and underdevelopment - growing crops that turn into illegal drugs |
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Humanism |
Humans can achieve for themselves |
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Age of Exploration |
Europe |
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Challenges facing developing nations |
Increased health care, female literacy |
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Goals of developing nations |
Stable government, industrialization |
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Mineral Resources |
Things such as coal and oil that are used to become more developed |
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How do you get people to go along with your ideas? |
You need to do it so they think that they are going to receive something for themselves in the end. |
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Human Rights |
A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person |
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Helsinki Agreement |
Gave people freedom of speech, press, and religion |
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Poverty in Africa |
They make us feel bad and then we are charged more for the goods that they sell us because they need more money - raise taxes |
