A) population sizes tend to decrease.
B) peasants' surpluses are transferred to the dominant elite.
C) a more egalitarian lifestyle emerges.
D) populations became less sedentary.
E) trade tends to occur at the local level rather than at the long-distance level.
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A) have typically learned English before arriving in the United States, so they do not need English classes.
B) tend to come from larger cities such as Beijing and have experience working in restaurants.
C) save up for years before making the journey, so that they have no debts on arrival.
D) frequently suffer physical and emotional stress as underpaid employees working long hours.
E) have no way of keeping in touch with their families at home.
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A) There is less predictability in the flow of goods between core and peripheral nations.
B) There are no longer any peripheral nations due to technological changes in manufacturing.
C) More than 80 percent of the world's population now lives in developed nations.
D) Semiperipheral nations have lost their economic power to peripheral nations.
E) The standard of living has declined dramatically in the core nations due to migration.
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A) conservative worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth.
B) flexible strategy that corporations use to accumulate profits during the era of globalization.
C) universal strategy for exploiting raw materials from colonized nations.
D) model of production based on a social compact between labor, capital, and government.
E) economic worldview that holds that government should play no role in economic growth.
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A) food production involving the domestication of animals.
B) cultivation involving permanent cultivation of the land.
C) practicing farming involving mechanization.
D) subsistence based on hunting, fishing, and gathering.
E) cultivation strategy with intensive use of land and labor.
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A) pastoralism.
B) agriculture.
C) horticulture.
D) swidden farming.
E) foraging.
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A) Fur
B) Sugar
C) Salt
D) Silk
E) Slaves
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A) an increase in the government spending on education and health care.
B) an increase in the state's role in local and international economics.
C) privatization of state-owned enterprises.
D) strict regulation of local labor markets.
E) reduction in Third World debt.
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A) North and South America.
B) the Caribbean.
C) China and Japan.
D) the Middle East.
E) the continent of Africa.
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A) in the early twenty-first century.
B) in the late 1700s.
C) in the mid-1800s.
D) in the late nineteenth century.
E) in the mid-twentieth century.
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A) food production involving the domestication of animals.
B) cultivation involving permanent cultivation of the land.
C) practicing farming involving mechanization.
D) subsistence based on hunting, fishing, and gathering.
E) cultivation strategy with intensive use of land and labor.
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A) a term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.
B) a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the industrialized nations.
C) a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies.
D) a critique that argued that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations in the global economy had not changed.
E) a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial political and military control.
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A) carrying capacity.
B) demographics.
C) bartering.
D) subsistence strategy.
E) overpopulation.
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A) turtle hunting in Honduras
B) the melting ice sheets in the Himalayas
C) the shift to production of organic foods
D) carbon emissions from gas and oil fuels
E) growing manioc in the Amazon
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A) a term used to suggest that poor countries should reestablish their colonial relationships with wealthy countries.
B) a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the industrialized nations.
C) a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies.
D) a critique that argued that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations in the global economy had not changed.
E) a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial political and military control.
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A) switching from the use of petroleum to solar and power
B) increasing consumption of goods to grow the economy
C) maintaining population growth at current levels
D) reducing the number of nation-states in the globe
E) encouraging more people and nations to purchase on credit
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A) John Keynes.
B) Adam Smith.
C) Karl Marx.
D) Henry Ford.
E) Immanuel Wallerstein.
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A) African scholars argued that industrialized countries were using the land and rain in East Africa to grow crops for export.
B) Anthropologists observed that inadequate natural resources made former colonies across the globe dependent on help from industrialized nations.
C) Latin American scholars observed that the global economy was structured to extract resources from less developed nations and transfer them to industrialized nations.
D) European scholars argued that flows of migrants from the global North to the global South made Europe dependent on immigrants as a labor source.
E) Former colonies became self-sufficient and did not experience underdevelopment.
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A) produce sustainable goods to limit use of coal in British factories.
B) train anthropologists to develop advanced technologies for measuring climate change.
C) use anthropological skills to study changing uses of Amazonian fields across time.
D) teach scientists ethnographic skills and methodologies so they can study climate change.
E) interview Himalayans about how they are coping with water shortages.
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