Vocabulary

5. a system in which a central government makes all economic decisions.
9. market's ability to produce a good or service
12. the percentage of the population of a given age group that can read and write
14. government where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else
15. individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture

1. political and economic system
2. political ideology that aims to give workers shared ownership of the tools, land, and buildings
3. political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person
4. a person who does not believe that there is a god or gods
6. who starts or owns a business
7. something new or to a change made to an existing product, idea, or field
8. form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body
10. groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture
11. belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself have souls
13. the spread of ideas, objects, inventions, and other practices from place to place
16. arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation