A type of economic system that is not controlled by a central authority but rather left to the free and open collaboration and decisions of the participants in the market.
Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.
A group of people living outside of their homeland.
Currency from another country.
A communist guerilla movement in Cambodia that held power from 1975 to 1979. Responsible for mass killings and mass starvation.
The systemic variation in sea temperature in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of South America, typically in late December, that has an impact on the weather of the region and across other regions of the world.
The name given to the extensive connections between Chinese family businesses in Southeast Asia.
An agricultural system in which temporary clearings are cropped for fewer years than they are allowed to remain fallow and involve "slash and burn" clearing practices.
An organized killing of a particular ethnic group.
Refers to a situation in which the concentration of a nation's population in just one city.
A religion in Bali that combines Hinduism and Buddhism as well as ancestor worship and animism.
A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.
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