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| demography | study of human populations, including teir size growth and distrtibution |
| culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people |
| population density | the average number of people living in a given area |
| birthrate | the number of ive births each year per 1,000 people |
| death rate | the number of deaths each year per 1,000 people |
| immigrant | a person who moves into a country |
| emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere |
| urbanization | the growth of city populations |
| rural | the countryside |
| diffusion | the process of spreading cultural traits from one person or society to another |
| acculturation | the process of accepting, borrowing and exchanging traits between cultures |
| culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures |
| sovereignty | a country's power to decide on policies and actions |
| unitary | a system in which one central govrnment holds most of the political power |
| federal | relating to a union of states that recognize a single conetral government but retain certain powers for themselves |
| confederation | government in which individula political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
| authoritarian | government in which one person holds all political power |
| dictatorship | government in which all power is held by one person |
| totalitarianism | government in which a central authority controls all aspects of society |
| monarchy | government headed by a king, queen, shah, or sultan |
| democracy | government in which the people choose their leaders |
| capitalist | an economic system in which the means of production are controlled by private individuals or corporations |
| communism | economic system in which the government owns the means of production |
| socialism | system in which government controls the production of most goods |
