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Vocabulary
Chapter 14
Term | Definition |
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Cultural diffusion | The process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors. |
Renaissance | the recvival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries |
Industrial Revolution | the shift from human power to machine power |
Summit | |
Prevailing westerlies | |
Euro | the common currency used by member nations of the European Union |
Compulsory | required |
Fertile | able to produce abundantly |
ore | |
tertiary economic activity | |
moor | |
bog | an area of wet, spongy ground |
glen | a narrow valley |
peat | |
cultural dicergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
blight | a plant disease |
fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice |
geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat |
mixed economy |