| A | B |
| Diffusion | when an idea spreads from one group to another |
| Emigrants | People who leave a country to live somewhere else |
| Culture | All the features of a people's way of life |
| Dialect | Regional variety of a language |
| Demography | The statistical study of human populations |
| Innovation | New ideas accepted by a culture |
| Lingua Franca | A language of trade and communication |
| Acculturation | When a group adopts some traits of another culture |
| Population Density | The average number of people living in an area |
| Monotheism | The belief in one god |
| Urbanization | The growth in the population of people living in towns and cities |
| Infrastructure | A system of roads, ports, and other facilities |
| Nationalism | A feeling of pride and loyalty for one's country or culture group |
| Capitalism | A system in which businesses, industries and resources are privately owned |
| Shifting Cultivation | The clearing of trees and brush for short-term farming |
| Geometric Boundaries | Borders that are drawn with little regard to environmental or cultural patterns |
| Domestication | The growing of plants and raising of animals by humans for their own use |
| Cultural Boundaries | Borders based on traits such as religion or language |
| Tariffs | Taxes imposed on imports and exports |
| Communism | A system in which the government owns or controls all the means of production |