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Used whever individuals think about a place or how to get to a place. They are highly personal and usually contain both objective knowledge and subjective projections.

Italian for Unredeemed. An attempt by existing states to annex territories of another state.

• Consists of three interrelated parts:
• The Troposphere, which is the lowest layer of earth's atmosphere.
• The Hydrosphere, which includes all of the waters, both on the surface and subsurface.
• The Lithosphere, contains all of the soils that support plant life, minerals, and fossil fuels and oresl.

Prompted by Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955. Initiated the Civil Rights Movement.

Founder and organizer of the Black Panter movement during the 1960's.

Resources which are in fixed amounts and are usually found in the ground. Not living things and don't regrow.

When migrants feel they are being pushed out of an area because they percieve it to be a place that is detrimental for them to remain.

A factor that attracts migrants to come to a new area.

Refers to the increaing interconnection of more and more people and places across the world through social, cultural, political, economic, and enviornmental processes. It is not a new process, as long distance trade and exchange has been taking place for thousands of years.

If a country sells its own currecy, this would increas supply and keep the price down.

• What to Produce
• For Whome to Produce
• How to Produce

Cost in lost opportuntiy because you have engaged in a different activity with your time. (If I don't work over the summer, my opportunity cost is the amount of money I could have made if I did work.)

freedom and freedom of choice.

In a market economy, in which everyone is free to make choices about what they purchase, market fources dictate the allocation of resources.

Goods that are not scarce. They are not worthless and people are able to use them.

• Demand
• Scarcity is a bi-product of demand - the more demand the less there is of a resource.

Land, labor, capital, and entreprenurship.

Government intervention such as establishing quotas, collecting license fees, and providing subsidies. Taxes are not normally considered part of government intervention.

Gross National Product. Defined as the total goods and services produced by the nation in a given year.

A market structure in which several or many sellers each produce similar, but slightly differentiated products. Each producer can set its price and quantity without affectin the marketplace as a whole. (film industry)

A bicarmeral legislature.

Maintaining order to escape the violent chaos of nature. Hobbes believed that if society were left to its natural state, people would act violently because they would be inclided to try to gain power over others.

A local government is chartered according to its state's constitution.

Realism is an international theory that holds that nation states are the basic governmental unit and there is no authority above individual nations.

Despotism, or rule by a despot