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Europe/Russia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| European Union | united much of western europe into one trading community |
| Maastricht Treaty | set up the european union |
| Light industry | making textiles or processing food |
| Heavy industry | the manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment |
| Mixed farming | raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the sam farm |
| collective farming | recieving wages plus a share of products and profits |
| state farming | not sharing in the profits but getting wages like factory workers |
| genrtically modified food | foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or more resistant to pests |
| organic farming | using substances insteador fertilizers and chemicals to increase crop yields |
| feudalism | a system in which monarchs or lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty |