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Unit 4 Terms+Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Peninsula | a body of land surrounded on 3 sides by water |
| Uplands | hills,mountains, and plateaus |
| Polder | Land in the Netherlands that has been reclaimed from the sea for farming |
| Bay | a body of water surrounded on 3 side by land |
| Fjord | a deep, narrow bay |
| Canal | a human-made waterway through land for boats and ships |
| Waterway | a navigable route for traveling and transport |
| Ecosystem | a community of living organisms and their natural environment, or habitat |
| Marine Reserve | an ocean area set aside to protect ocean life from humans |
| Democracy | a form of government by the people, in which citizens often elect representatives to govern them (ME) |
| City-State | an independent state made up by a city and the territories depending on it |
| Golden Age | A period of great wealth,culture, and democracy in Greece |
| Philosopher | A person who examines questions about the universe and searches for the truth |
| Plebeian | a farmer or lower class person in ancient Rome |
| Aqueduct | transport system for carrying water long distances, sometimes raised on a bridge |
| Feudal System | a socials structure during the Middle Ages consisting of a king,lord,vassals, and serfs |
| Navigations | the science of finding positions and planning routes |
| Natural Rights | the rights such as life,liberty,and property that people posses at birth |
| Nationalism | a strong sense of loyalty to ones country |
| Guillotine | a machine used to execute people during the French Revolution |
| Reparations | after war, money made as a punishment,usually used by the aggressors in the conflict |
| Factory System | a way of working in which one person works on only one part of the product |
| Republic | a form of government in which the officials are elected by the goverment |
| Navigable | wide or deep enough to easily be traveled by boats or ships |
| Radical | a person who wants an extremely change or holds an extremely political position |
| Rhine River | a river that starts in Switzerland and ends in the North Sea |
| Alps | a European mountain chain |
| Danube River | A river that starts in Germany and ends at the Black Sea |
| Acropolis | a rocky hill in Athens, Greece, that served as a fortress for the ancient city's most important bulidings |
| Reformation | the movement in the 1500s to reform Christianity |
| Renaissance | meaning"rebirth", the period in the 1300s to 1500s in which the cutures |
| Industrial Revolution | a period in the 1700s and 1800s in which workers in factories began to use machines and power tools for large-scale industry |
| Enlightenment | a social movement of the 1700s that worked for education and rights of the individual |
| John Locke | an English philosopher and physician |
| Reign of Terror | a movement in France led by Maximilien Robespierre in which 40,000 people were beheaded in 1793-94 |
| Great Depression | large decline in happyness and there was no new inventions |
| Treaty of Versailles | a peace treaty between the French and British that ended WW1 but then eventually failed |
| Cold War | A war between the US and USSR |
| Iron Curtain | A physical boundary the divided Europe from the end of WW2- the end of the Cold War |
| Berlin Wall | guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic |
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