Globalization

2. The use of artificial satellites to relay and amplify radio telecommunication signals, enabling global communication.
8. Countries working to grow their industries and improve their economies.
9. Treaties that reduce or eliminate taxes (tariffs) and restrictions on goods moving between countries.
11. Portable telephones that use cellular technology to make and receive calls
12. A network where a product might be designed in one country, sourced with raw materials from another, and assembled in a third.

1. The world becoming more connected, with countries, people, businesses, and cultures interacting and depending on each other more easily through trade, technology, and travel.
3. Using massive, standardized metal boxes that can be easily moved from ships to trains to trucks—drastically lowered the cost of transporting products.
4. A company that operates in several countries, often with factories and offices in different parts of the world.
5. Characterized by advanced technology and high standards of living, often provide the capital and design for new products.
6. A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities
7. The mutual reliance between two or more groups or nations, where each depends on the other for goods, services, or resources.
10. The sharing of ideas, traditions, and values between different cultures.