Chapter 14-17 vocab
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| cultural diffusion | the process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors
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| Renaissance | the revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
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| Industrial Revolution | the shift from human power to machine power
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| summit | the highest point of the mountain or similar elevation
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| prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from the west to east in the temperate zones of the earth
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| euro | the common currency used by member nations of the European Union
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| compulsory | required
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| fertile | able to produce abundantly
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| ore | a rocky material containing a valuable mineral
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| tertiary economic activity | an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others; service industry
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| moor | broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog
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| bog | an area or wet, spongy ground
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| glen | a narrow valley
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| peat | spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used fuel
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| cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from an outside influence
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| blight | a plant disease
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| fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice
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| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat
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| mixed economy | a system combining different degrees of government regulation
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| dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community
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| impressionism | a style of art where painters try to catch visual made by color, light, and shadows
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| nationalize | to bring a business under state control
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| recession | an extended decline in business activity
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| confederation | a system of government in which indiviual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government
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| reparation | money aid for war damages
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| inflation | a sharp widespread rice in prices
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| lignite | a soft, brownish black coal
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| dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water
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| polder | an area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea
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| decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions
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| canton | a political division or state; one of the states in Switzerland
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| neutral | not taking sides in war
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| perishable good | a product that does not stay fresh for long
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| strip mining | the process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits
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| navigable | deep and wide enough enough to allow the passage of ships
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| dry farming | a farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture
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| sirocco | a hot, dry wind from northern Africa
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| hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence
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| seismic activity | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
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| subsidence | a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area shakes
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| bog | an area; or wet spongy ground
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