Chapter 14-17 Vocabulary
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| Cultural Diffision | The process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors.
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| Renaissance | The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe between the Fourteenth , Fifteenth, Sixteenth Century.
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| Industrial Revolution | The shift of human power to machine power.
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| Summit | The Highest point of a mountain or similar elevation.
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| Prevailing Westernlies | The consent flow of wind from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth.
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| Euro | The common
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| Compulsory | Requirement
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| Fertie | Able to produce abundandanty
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| Ore | A rocky material containing a valuable mineral
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| Tertiary Economic Activity | An economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but persue activities that serve others
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| Moor | Broad, treeless, rolling land often poorly drained and having patches of march and peat bog.
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| Bog | An area of wet, spongy ground.
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| Glen | A narrow valley.
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| Peat | Spongy material containing decaying and waterlogged mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as plants.
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| Cultural Divergence | The restriction of a culture from outside influences
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| Blight | A plant disease.
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| Fjord | A narrow inlet or valley from the sea originality carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacier ice.
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| Geothermal Energy | Energy produced by the earths intense interior heart.
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| Mixed Economy | A system combining diffrent degrees of government regulations.
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| Dialect | Varions of a language that is unique in a country or community.
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| Impressionism | Artist that were leaders in the style of paining
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| nationalized | brought under state control
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| Confederation | loose political union
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| Reparation | Money for war damages
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| inflation | sharply rising prices
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| lignite | Soft, brown coal
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| dike | embankment of the earth and rock, to hold back the water.
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| Polder | reclaimed land from the sea
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| decentralze | to tansfer government power to smaller regions
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| Canton | States
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| neutral | not taking sided in the war
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| perishable good | A product that does not stay fresh for long
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| strip mining | the process whereby miners strip awat the surface of the eath to lay the mineraldepostits.
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| recession | An extended decline in a business acivity
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