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chapter 18-20
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| domestication | the process of training and breeding animals for use by hummans |
| communism | a system of goverment in wich goverment controls the means of production deteriming what goods will be made how much workers will be paid and how much iteams will coast |
| eurasia | the name some geographers suggest should be used for the landmass of erope and aisa |
| inland sea | a sea that is almost completely surrounded by land |
| tundra | a dry treeles plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized lants and plants grow |
| tagi | thinly scattered coniferous forests found in erope and asia |
| steppe | a tempreate grassland found in europe and aisa |
| multiethnationalnic | composed of many ethnic groups |
| ethnic group | people who sare such things as culture language and religion |
| acid rain | rain whose high concentration of chemicals usually from industrial pollution watter kills plant and animals life and eats away at the surface of stone and rock like a form chemical weathering |
| national identity | a peoples sense of what makes them a nation |
| ghetto | a section of a city in wich a particlular minority group is forvce to live |
| holocaust | the excution of 6 million jews in nazi concentration camps during world war2 |
| velvet revolution | |
| collective farm | a gaoverment owned farm managed by workers who share the profits frim their produce |
| privatization | the process of sellin government owned industries and busnesses to prrived |
| balkanize | to break up into small mutually hostile political units as iccured in the balkans after world war1 |
| entrepreneur | a go getter individual who starts an builds a busness |
| multiplier effect | the effect an investement has in multiplying related jobs throught out the econonmy |
| annex | to formally incorprorate into a country or state the territory of another |
| diversify | to increase the variety |
| tundra | |
| taiga | |
| 0plchemozem | |
| permafrost | |
| czar | an emperor of russia |
| abdicate | to surrender ones office throne or authoritty |
| soviet | |
| command ecnomy | an economic ststem that is controlled by a single central goverment |
| glasnost | |
| perestroika | |
| ruble | |
| black market | the system of selling goods and services out side of official channels |
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