| Term | Definition |
|---|
| anthropology | the study of hummas |
| geography | the study of the earths surface |
| topography | physical features of a region |
| cartography | mapmaking |
| sociology | the study of human society |
| patriarchal | men make family decisions |
| matriarchal | women make family decisions |
| economics | the study of consumption, distribution, and pruduction of wealth |
| goods | pruducts that are made to be sold |
| services | work done or duties performed for others |
| consumer | person who buys goods and services |
| capitalism | economic sytem in which the people and privately owned companies own basic and non-basic businesses |
| socialism | economic system in which the government owns most basic industries, but non-basic industries are privately owned |
| communism | a political system in which the central government controls all spects of citizens' lives |
| religion | system of belifes and values that include divine power/s (deity) |
| belief | an acceptance that certain things are true |
| philosophy | system of belifes and values |
| political science | the study of the government |
| government | system that establishes and enforces laws and instituions |
| constitution | set of laws that defines and limits a government's power |
| direct democracy | system of government in which the people participate directly in decision making |
| representative democracy | system of government in which the people elect represenatives to run the affairs if the country |
| monarchy | system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch-usually a king or queen who inherits the throne |
| dictator | ruler who has complete power over a country |
| history | the study of the past |
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