Thursday, October 17th

First we went over the Asian Subcontinent and Far East maps. The current events today were the government reopened. They bumped the debt ceiling up again. They are fixing things in January though. We are going to have a quiz tomorrow.

Economic Systems 

       Capitalism - where people own and control businesses

       Socialism - where the government controls businesses 

Political System

       Anarchy - lack of government

       Communism - practice - the government has control of everything; theory - where the people decide to over throw the leaders and create an equal society

       Monarchy - absolute - king has complete power; constitutional - where this is a king or queen but their power is limited by a constitution

       Democracy - direct - everyone votes and majority rules; representative - people elect representatives to make laws for them

       Dictatorship - person or single government that controls the country

Key Terms

Coup D'etat

Archipelago

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