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Chapter 18-20 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Communism | system of which the government controlled almost all aspects of political and economic life. |
Domestication | adaptation to humans in a calm matter |
Eurasia | large single continent |
Inland sea | sea that is almost completely surrounded by land |
Tundra | treeless plain in arctic areas where short grasses and mosses grow |
Taiga | coniferous forest |
steppe | expansive grasslands |
multiethnic | containing many ethnic groups |
ethnic group | composed of people who share such things as culture, language, and religion |
Acid rain | polluted rain in which toxic chemicals in the air come back to the earth as rain |
Infant mortality | number of children born per 1,000 live births who die within the first year. |
Maternal mortality | number of woman who die due to pregnancy and child birth complicationn |
Expectancy | the number of years an individual is expected to live as determined |
national identity | sense of what characteristics make them a nation |
ghetto | section of city where minority is forced to live. |
Holocaust | destruction of human life |
velvet revolution | revolution without bloodshed |
privatization | selling government owned industries and businesses to private owners |
collective farms | paid by the government and share the profits |
Balkanize | break into small, mutually hostile political units |
entrepreneur | go-getter individuals who start and build businesses |
multiplier effect | the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout an economy |
Annex | formally added |
diversity | increase the variety |
Czar | monarchs |
abdicate | give up crown |
soviet | governing council |
command economy | central authority controls what goods will be produced |
glasnost | allows citizens and news media to say what they wished without fear of government prosecution |
perestroika | economic restructuring |
ruble | price |
black market | goods and services move unofficially without formal record keeping |
Tundra | treeless zone |
taiga | land where trees that do not grow to great size |
steppes | great grassland |
Chernozen | black earth |
permafrost | layer of permanently frozen soil |