Chapter 2 - The Changing Global Context

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Globalization

________ has intensified differences in prosperity between the core and the periphery contemporary society is characterized by new vulnerabilities and hazards.

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Premodern geographies

________ were organized around mini systems and regional empires while the modern world system was established over a long period of time beginning in the late fifteenth century.

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Core Regions

________ are those that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies and have high levels of productivity within diversified economies

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Peripheral Regions

________ are characterized by dependent and disadvantageous trading relationships, by primitive or obsolescent technologies and by undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity

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Semi peripheral regions

________ are able to exploit peripheral regions but are exploited and dominated by core regions

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capitalist

The core of the world system grew to Include the United States, Japan, and Europe, while most of the world was systemically incorporated into the ________ world system.

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Premodern geographies

________ were organized around mini systems and regional empires while the modern world system was established over a long period of time beginning in the late fifteenth century

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