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Chapter 14-17 Vocabulary

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Definition
Cultural Diffusion   the process by which the people adopt the practices of their neighbors  
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Renaissance   the rival of art, literature, and learning that took place in europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries  
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Industrial Revolution   the shift from human power to machine power``  
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Summit   the highest point of a mountain or similar elevation  
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Prevailing Westerlies   the constant flow of air form west to east in the temperate zones of the Earth  
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Euro   the common currecny 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 comtaining a vulnerable mineral  
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Terciary Economic Activity   an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others  
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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   an area of wet spongey ground  
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Glen   a narrow valley  
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Peat   spongey material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as fuel  
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Cultural Divergence   the resriction of culture from outside infuences  
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Blight   a plant disease  
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Fjord   a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancin glacier and filled by melting glacial ice  
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Geothermal Energy   energy produced from the earth intense interior heat  
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Mixed Economy   a system combinging differet 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 where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows  
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Recession   an extended decline in buisness ectivity  
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Confederation   a system of government in which individual political units keep their soveringetybut give imited power to the 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 form 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 Switerland  
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Neutral   to bring a buisness under state control  
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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 surfaceof the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits  
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Navigable   deep and wide enough to allow the passage of strips  
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Dry Farming   a farming techmique that leaves land unplanted every few year 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 cencentrated activity 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 area sink  
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Renaissance   the rival of art, literature, and learning that took place in europe during the 14, 15, and 16 century  
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