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Term | Definition |
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Prairies | A grassland or meadow |
Tundra | Treeless plains in arctic regions |
Permafrost | Frozen subsoil |
City-states | States that has it's own government |
Policies | An accepted set of rules or ideas of what should be done |
Feudalism | People who worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and use of land in return |
Renaissance | A period of time when there is a new interest in something that hasn't been popular in a long time |
Monarchy | A form of government in which the country is ruled by a monarch (such as a king or queen) |
Middle class | The social class between upper class and lower class that includes mainly buisness and professional people |
Revolution | The usually violent attempt by many people to end the rule of one government and start a new one |
Colony | An area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it |
Industrial revolution | In the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the U.S. when new machinery, new sources of power, and new ways of manufacturing products were developed |
Imperialism | A policy or practice by which a country increases it's power by gaining control over other areas of the world |
Nationalism | A feeling that people have when they are loyal and proud of their country with the belief that their country is better and more important than other countries |
Alliances | A relationship of people, groups, countries, etc. in which they agree to work together |
Westernization | To cause someone or something to have the qualities or characteristics that are associated with Western Europe and North America |
Czar | The ruler of Russia before 1917 |
Cold war | The nonviolent conflict between the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. after 1945 |
Civil war | A war between groups in the same country |
Immigrants | A person who comes to a country to live there |
Parliament | The group of people who are responsible for making the laws in some kinds of government |
Representatives | having people who are chosen in elections to act or speak in support of the people who voted for them |
Reunification | To make (something like a divided country) whole again |
Communism | a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property |