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nomads hunting people who travel from palce to place to find food civilization highly organized group of people with their own language and ways of living archeologists scientists who study the objects left by earlt people artisans skilled craftworkers capital money to be invested in business ventures for the use of making a profit entrepreneurs people who risk their money to set up businesses in order to make a profit urbanization growth of cities imperialism control of one country of the political, economic, or culture life of another country or region westernization adoption of western cultures nationalism pride in and loyalty to one's own country cash crops crops sold to the world market modernization changes in a nation that enable it to set up a stable government and produce a high level of goods and services tariff tax on imported goods privatization selling state-owned industries to private industeries literacy ability to read and write population density average number of people living in and area of a specific size cartography the production or design of maps culture all things that make up a person's way of life economics the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind geography study of people, their environments, and their resources tributary stream or small river that flows into a larger stream or river isthmus narrow strip of land joining tow large land areas or joining a peninsula to a mainland plateau large area of high land that is flat or gently rolling population density number of people living in an area(per square mile) hemisphere one half of the earth peninsula a large mass of land projecting into a body of water strait a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water Plain area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses delta a low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water ecosystem a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment