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ch 14-17

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cultural diffusion   procces by which people adopt the practice of their neighbor  
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industrial revolution   shift from human power to mechan power  
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renaissance   revail of art literature and learming that took place to europe during the fourteenth fifteenth, and sixthteenths  
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summits   highest point if a mountian  
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euro   common currency used by member nations of the European  
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compulsory   required  
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fertile ``   able to produce abundantly  
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ore   rocky material containing valuable mineral  
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tertiary economic activity   enonomic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw material but pursue ativities that serve others aervious industrys  
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moor   broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained and having patches or marsh and peat bog  
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bog   area of a wet, spongy ground  
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glen   a narrow valley  
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peat   spongy material contaning waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used fuel  
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cultural divergence   process by which people adopt the practice of their neighbors  
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blight   plant decease  
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fjord   narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting ice  
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geothermal energy   energy produced from he earth's intence interior heat  
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mixed economy   system combining different degrees of government regulation  
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navigable   deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships  
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dry farming   a farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture  
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sirocco   hot dry wind from northern Africa  
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hub   a central point of concentrated activity and influence  
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seismic activity   earthquakes and volcanic eruptions  
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subsidence   geologic phenomenon in which the ground in the area sinks  
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Renaissance   revival of art literature and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth century  
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graben   a long narrow area that has dropped between two fults  
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inhabitable   able to support permanent resident  
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tsunami   huge wave caused primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as the earthquake or a volcanic eruption  
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dike   an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water  
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polder   area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea  
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decentralize   to transfer government power to smaller regions  
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confederation   system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government  
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reparation   money paid for war damage  
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inflation   a sharp widespread rise in prices  
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lignite   a soft brownish-black coal  
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dialect   a variation of a spoken language that is unique to region or community  
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impressionism   a style of art where the painters try to catch visual impression made by color, shadows, and light  
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nationalize   to bring a business under state control  
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recession   extended decline in business activity  
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canton   a political division or state one of the states in Switzerland  
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neutral   not taking sides in war  
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perishable good   product that does not stay fresh for long  
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strip mining   process whereby miners strip away surface of the earth to lay bare in the mineral deposits  
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