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POLI 105 EXAM 1 TERMS & DEFINITIONS | VCU
POLITICAL SCIENCE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026
Terms in this set (63)
Hunter-gatherers: hunting, fishing,
foraging wild stuff, then we learn to grow
food, keep animals, make buildings,
etc.,
Then we had the industrial revolution. Our
ability to build things that reshaped the
world around us (building materials,
electricity, transportation, machines). Again,
this changed almost everything, but
What are the four not for everyone. Those who benefited
revolutions? Briefly from the industrial revolution evolved
describe them. into the rich states. Those still in the
agricultural era
were much poorer. And those who
benefitted from the industrial revolution
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used the new technologies to make war
on the agricultural world, more efficiently
conquering them and stealing their
resources. Now, we at the early stage of a
new revolution.
That's an important point: if you experience and
embrace the new revolution, you
prosper (at least economically and in
terms of your power).We now live in a
world of instantaneous communications,
easy travel, money that flows across
borders,
technology that ignores borders. With
some exceptions: Life expectancy is going
up nearly everywhere; infant mortality is
going down; wealth being generated at
incredible pace; most people wealthier
than they were 25 years ago. And where
the technology goes from here with
Artificial Intelligence...
the pattern of relations between nation-
what is an international states (countries) and non-state
system? international actors (things like the UN
or Organization of American States or
Amnesty
International or al-Qaeda).
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It's very clear who has power, who does not
have power, how you can get power,
and how decisions are made. It's all
Is it clear who is in regulated. Doesn't always produce justice,
charge for domestic but it produces a defined order.Clear
politics? authority and responsibility and
hierarchy We have federal government,
state governments, country, city,
municipal, US constitution, state
constitutions, so many laws, you need an
entire profession of people to figure out
what it all means, everything is codified,
and regulated, and when we're not sure,
we have specific ways of dealing with
the uncertainty.
What is domestic Politics that are in a country
politics?
What does authority no central authority, sovereignity, self-help, might
look like for makes right
international politics?
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POLI 105 EXAM 1 TERMS & DEFINITIONS | VCU
POLITICAL SCIENCE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026
Terms in this set (63)
Hunter-gatherers: hunting, fishing,
foraging wild stuff, then we learn to grow
food, keep animals, make buildings,
etc.,
Then we had the industrial revolution. Our
ability to build things that reshaped the
world around us (building materials,
electricity, transportation, machines). Again,
this changed almost everything, but
What are the four not for everyone. Those who benefited
revolutions? Briefly from the industrial revolution evolved
describe them. into the rich states. Those still in the
agricultural era
were much poorer. And those who
benefitted from the industrial revolution
1/
16
,7/13/25, 6:47
PM
used the new technologies to make war
on the agricultural world, more efficiently
conquering them and stealing their
resources. Now, we at the early stage of a
new revolution.
That's an important point: if you experience and
embrace the new revolution, you
prosper (at least economically and in
terms of your power).We now live in a
world of instantaneous communications,
easy travel, money that flows across
borders,
technology that ignores borders. With
some exceptions: Life expectancy is going
up nearly everywhere; infant mortality is
going down; wealth being generated at
incredible pace; most people wealthier
than they were 25 years ago. And where
the technology goes from here with
Artificial Intelligence...
the pattern of relations between nation-
what is an international states (countries) and non-state
system? international actors (things like the UN
or Organization of American States or
Amnesty
International or al-Qaeda).
2/
16
, 7/13/25, 6:47
PM
It's very clear who has power, who does not
have power, how you can get power,
and how decisions are made. It's all
Is it clear who is in regulated. Doesn't always produce justice,
charge for domestic but it produces a defined order.Clear
politics? authority and responsibility and
hierarchy We have federal government,
state governments, country, city,
municipal, US constitution, state
constitutions, so many laws, you need an
entire profession of people to figure out
what it all means, everything is codified,
and regulated, and when we're not sure,
we have specific ways of dealing with
the uncertainty.
What is domestic Politics that are in a country
politics?
What does authority no central authority, sovereignity, self-help, might
look like for makes right
international politics?
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16
