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Chapter 13 Vocab
Social Studies
Term | Definition |
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Eurasia | Region that lies on both the European and Asian contiinents |
Urban | City |
Suburbs | Smaller communities that surround a city |
Consumer goods | Clothes, radios, and automobiles |
Rural | Countryside |
tundra | Ground thaws during the summer |
taiga | World´s largest forest |
steppes | desert and grassland |
Communism | Economical system |
heavy industry | making of iron and steel |
light industry | making of furniture and clothes |
Slavs | An ethnic group |
majority culture | Slavs |
minority culture | Islamic or Jewish |
Ethnic conflict | dispute between ethnic groups |
nomads | people who move a lot |
oasis | green area |
elevation | above sea level |