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cultural diffushion   the process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors  
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industrial revolution   the shift of human power to machine power  
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renaissance   the revival of art literature, and learning that took place in europe durin the fourteenth, fitteenth, and sixteenth centuries  
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summit   the highest point of a mountain or similar elevation  
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prevailing westerlies   the constant flow air from west to east in the temperate zones  
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euro   the common currency used by member nations of the european union  
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compulsory   required  
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fertile   able to produce abundantly  
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ore   a rocky material containing a valuable mineral  
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tertiary economic activity    
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moor   broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog  
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bog   area of wet, spongy ground  
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glen   a narrow valley  
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peat    
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cultural divergance   the restriction of a culture from outside influences  
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blight   a plant disease  
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fjord   a narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally caved out by a an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice  
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geothermal energy   energy produced from the earths intense interior heat  
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mixed economy   a system combining different degrees of government regulation  
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dialect   a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community  
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impressionism   a style of art wher painters try to catch visual impression made color, light, and shadow  
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nationlize   to bring a business under state control  
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recession   an extended decline in business activity  
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confederation   a 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 damages  
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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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dike   an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water  
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polder   an 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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canton   a political division or state,; one of the states in switzerland  
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neutral   not taking sides in a 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 away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits  
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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   a 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   a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an sinkls  
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graben   a long, narrow area that has dropped between two faults  
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inhabitable   able to support permanent residents  
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tsunami   a huge wave caused primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or a volcanic eruption  
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