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| summit | the highest point of a mountain or similar elvevation
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| prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from 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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| 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 century
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| industrial revolution | the shift from human power to machine power
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| compulsory | required
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| fertile | able to produce abundently
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| ore | a rocky material containing a valuable maatrial
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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 other service industy
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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 of wet spongy ground
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| glen | a narrow valey
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| peat | spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as fuel
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| cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences
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| fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an Advancing glacier and filled by glacier ice
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| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earths intense interior heat
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| mixed economy | a system combining different degrees of government regulation
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| blight | a plant disease
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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 were painter try to capture visual impressions made by color light and shadows
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| nationalize | to bring 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 individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government
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| reparation | money paid for war damage
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| inflation | a sharp wide spread of 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 a war
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| perishable goods | a product that does not stay fresh for long
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| strip mining | the process by witch miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bear the mineral deposites
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