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Prairies   A grassland or meadow  
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Tundra   Treeless plains in arctic regions  
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Permafrost   Frozen subsoil  
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City-states   States that has it's own government  
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Policies   An accepted set of rules or ideas of what should be done  
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Feudalism   People who worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and use of land in return  
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Renaissance   A period of time when there is a new interest in something that hasn't been popular in a long time  
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Monarchy   A form of government in which the country is ruled by a monarch (such as a king or queen)  
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Middle class   The social class between upper class and lower class that includes mainly buisness and professional people  
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Revolution   The usually violent attempt by many people to end the rule of one government and start a new one  
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Colony   An area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it  
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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  
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Imperialism   A policy or practice by which a country increases it's power by gaining control over other areas of the world  
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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  
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Alliances   A relationship of people, groups, countries, etc. in which they agree to work together  
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Westernization   To cause someone or something to have the qualities or characteristics that are associated with Western Europe and North America  
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Czar   The ruler of Russia before 1917  
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Cold war   The nonviolent conflict between the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. after 1945  
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Civil war   A war between groups in the same country  
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Immigrants   A person who comes to a country to live there  
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Parliament   The group of people who are responsible for making the laws in some kinds of government  
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Representatives   having people who are chosen in elections to act or speak in support of the people who voted for them  
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Reunification   To make (something like a divided country) whole again  
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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  
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