demography - the study of human population in terms of numbers, especially birth rates, death rates, ethnic composition, age and gender distributions, cultural diffusion - the process of spreading cultural traits from one region to another, Columbian Exchange - an interchange of plants, animals, disease, people, and culture between the Western and Eastern hemispheres following the voyages of Columbus, deforestation - clearing forests to use the area for other purposes, renewable resource - refers to a natural resource that can be replenished naturally, non-renewable resource - refers to natural resources that cannot be remade or replenished, ethnicity - a group that shares common cultural traits, such as language, nationalism - an extreme devotion to a country characterized by a lack of questioning of state authority, assimilation - adopting new cultural practices, generally from a dominant culture group, supranational organization - a collection of multiple states that make up a larger group that goes beyond national boundaries, transportation corridor - an area of land that includes lines of transportation, like railroads, highways, canals, peninsula - a piece of land that is connected to a mainland and is surrounded on three sides by water, standard of living - refers to the wealth and purchasing power of a particular group, literacy - the ability to read and write, factors of production - conditions needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor, and capital, monumental architecture - large man-made structures generally created for the public to remember an event or individual,

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