| A | B |
|---|
| DEMOCRACY | rule by the majority of the people by voting |
| MONARCHY | rule by a king or queen with power passed through royal blood |
| THEOCRACY | rule by religious leaders in accordance to religious laws |
| TYRANNY | rule by a strongman who takes power by force |
| ARISTOCRACY | rule by a small group of land downing nobles |
| OLIGARCHY | rule by a small group of rich businessmen |
| "KLEPTOCRACY" | slang term for a government in which powerful people are stealing the peoples' money all over the place |
| TOTALITARIAN | describes a gov't that has total control over its peoples' thoughts and actions |
| CULTURAL DIFFUSION | when ideas and inventions spread between different groups |
| HIERARCHY | a ordered ranking such as a school |
| INFRASTRUCTURE | things such as roads and bridges which a gov't builds with tax money to help everyone prosper |
| CIVIL WAR | a war between groups WITHIN a country, usually over who will rule next |
| NEOLITHIC REVOLTUION | when early man learned to grow crops and tame animals, about 10,000 BC |
| INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | when mechanical energy and machines replaced human and animal energy to get things done, started about 1750 AD |
| GLOBALISM | the quick and easy movement of people, things and ideas over national borders |
| BORDER | a man made division between countries which may be "open" or "closed" |
| BUREAUCRACY | the organization of people who make governments work |
| GLOBAL WARMING | the rise of global temperatures caused by industrial pollution being trapped in the atmosphere |
| ISLAMIST | a terrorist, one of the tiny fraction of Muslims who wishes to use violence to advance the cause |
| IMPERIALISM | When one country takes over other lands to dominate them militarily, politically and economically |
