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Chapter 3 "South America"

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show High-elevation plateau, basin, or valley between even higher mountain ranges, especially in the Andes of South America.  
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show One society or culture group taking land from another.  
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Liberation theology   show
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show Farmers who eke out a living on a small plot of land which they are only able to grow enough food to support their families or at best a small community.  
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show The notion that economic development caries spatially, a central tenet of core-periphery relationships in realms, regions, and lesser geographic entities.  
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Supranationalism   show
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show Dominated by unlicensed of homemade goods and services, the primitive form of capitalism found in many developing countries that takes place beyond the control of government. The complement to a country's formal sector.  
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Barrio   show
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show Shantytown on the outskirts or even wall within an urban area in Brazil.  
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show Informal term referring to the world's most heavily populated cities; in this book, the term refers to a metropolis containing a population of greater than 10 million.  
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show Originating in South America during the 1960s, it was a new way of thinking about economic development and underdevelopment that explained the persistent poverty of certain countries in terms of their unequal relations with other (i.e., rich) countries.  
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Insurgent state (include example)   show
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Failed state (include example)   show
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show The turbulent and chaotic area in southern South America that surrounds the convergence of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Lawlessness pervades this heaven for criminal elements, which is notorious for money laundering, arms and other smuggling...  
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Primate city (include example)   show
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Buffer state   show
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show A place, usually a port city, where good are imported, stored, and transshipped; a break-of-bulk point  
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Forward capital (include example)   show
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Cerrado   show
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Elongation   show
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