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Chapter 14-17 Vocab

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Term
Definition
Cultural Diffusion   show
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Renaissance   show
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show The shift from human power to machine power  
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show The highest point of a mountain or similar elevation  
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Prevailing Westerlies   show
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show The common currency used by member nations of the European Union  
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Compulsory   show
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Fertile   show
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Ore   show
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show An economic activity in which people do no directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others; service industry  
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show Broad, treeless,rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog  
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Bog   show
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Glen   show
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show Spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fuel  
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show The restriction of a culture from outside influences  
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show A plant disease  
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show A narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by and advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice  
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show Energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat  
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Mixed Economy   show
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Dialect   show
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Impressionism   show
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show To bring business under state control  
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show An extended decline in business activity  
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show A system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government  
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show Money paid for war damages  
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show A sharp, widespread rise in prices.  
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Lignite   show
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Dike   show
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Polder   show
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Decentralize   show
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Canton   show
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Neutral   show
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Perishable Good   show
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show The process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits  
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Navigable   show
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show A farming technique hat leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture  
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show A hot, dry wind from northern Africa  
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show A central point of concentrated activity and influence  
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Seismic Activity   show
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Subsidence   show
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show A long, narrow area that has dropped between two faults  
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Inhabitable   show
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show A huge wave caused primarily by disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or a volcanic eruption  
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