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geography
Geography chapters 12-13 crap
crap | other crap |
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multicultural | having one or more cultures |
refugee | people who flee to a foreign country for safety |
city-state | in ancient Greece, independent community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands, where democracy first developed |
feudalism | a system in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in the return for pledges and loyalty |
Crusades | a series of religious wars to win Palestine from Muslim rule |
Renaissance | a 300-year period of learning and the arts |
reformation | a religious movement that lessened the power of the Roman catholic church and led to the beginning of Protestantism |
communism | an economic and political system designed to establish classless societies in which workers would control industrial production |
Holocaust | the mass killing of 6 million European Jews and others by Germany's Nazi leaders |
cold war | a power struggle between the Communist world, led by the U.S. |
dialect | local forms of language |
language family | a group of related languages that developed from an earlier language |
Romanticism | art form that tried to show feelings and emotions |