| Term | Definition |
| producer | owners and workers |
| consumer | person who buys and uses product |
| capitalism | economic system in which goverment owns farms factories and offices |
| developed nations | nations with more industeries and more advanced technology |
| devloping nations | nations with fewere industeries and technology |
| goverements | orginizations that set up and enforce laws |
| state | region that shares a goverment |
| dependencies | region that belonds to another nation |
| nation-state | states that are independent of other states |
| city-state | small city-centered state |
| empires | states containing several countries |
| constitutions | set of laws that define and often limit goverments power |
| socialism | theory or system of organizations by which major means of production are ownded, managded + controlled by goverment |
| barter system | exchanging one kind of goods for other goods without using money |
| manurfacturing | making goods with machienes |
| representative | person elected to act or speak for others |