| A | B |
|---|
| Muhammad | Founder of Islam |
| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | tries to influence the price of oil on world markets |
| Primary Source | ex. diary, autobiography, picture, etc. |
| Arable | Land that is suitable for growing crops |
| Polder | land reclaimed from water |
| Isolationism | avoiding international relationships due to fear of the outside world or physical features |
| Command Economy | an economy in which the government owns most of the industries and makes most of the economic decisions |
| Market Economy | an economy in which the economic decisions are made by business owners and consumers |
| Constitutional Monarchy | A government with a kind or queen who has very little power and a legislature elected by the people who makes the laws |
| Communism | an economic and political system in which the government controls or owns almost all of the means of production, industries, wages, and prices |
| Autocracy | a type of government in which one person has the power to make all decisions |
| Democracy | a type of government in which a country's people elect their leaders, the majority rules, and power is in the hands of the people |
| Coastal Plain | a nearly flat area of land that lies along the coast of a sea or ocean |
| Nomad | a person who move from place to place and have no permanent home |
| Landlocked | an area of land that has no direct access to the ocean (does not border the ocean) |
| Oasis | a settlement where a spring or well provides water |
| Monotheism | belief in one god |
| Polytheism | belief in many gods |
| European Union | main benefit is to allow for easier trade among European countries |
| Three Gorges Dam | provides clean energy to 1/8 of China |
| Special Economic Zones (SEZ's) | areas of China that have been opened up to market economy so foreign countries to locate businesses there to help create more jobs and boost the economy |
| One Child Policy | when each family was only allowed to have one child in China without penalty |
