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system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy
many firms from the same industry grouping together in an area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure
intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries
region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, often fragmented by aggressive rivals
study of states' shapes and their effects
pull people apart
unite people together
ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit sprawl of urban area
legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland
area within a city which people illegally establish residences on land they don't own or rent
first born inherits everything to prevent land from being split up over and over
belief that religion should have no place in the way we are governed
government payment that supports a business or market