chapter 14-17
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| cultural diffusion | the process by wich people adopt the parctces 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 shitf frim human power t o machine power
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| summit | the highest point if mountian or similar elevation
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| previlling wesrerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the tempreate zones of the earth
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| euro | the common currency used by member nations of the european
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| penicula | water on three sides of land
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| compulsory | reqwierd
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| fertile | able to produce abunadantly
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| ore | a rocky meterial cintaining a valuable mineral
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| tertiary economic ativity | an ecinomic activity in wic people do not directly gater or process raw materials but pursue acticities that seve otiers servuce inderstry
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| moor | board treeless rolling land often poorly drained and heing patches of marsh and peat bog
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| bog | an area of wet spongy ground
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| glen | a narrow valley
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| peat | spongy meterial containing waterlogged and deacying mosses and plants some times dried and used as fuel
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| cultural duvergence | THE RESTRICATION OF A CULTURE from out side influences
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| blight | a plant desease
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| fjord | a narrow valley or inlet frm the sea originally coverd out by an adcanving glacier and filled by melting glacial ice
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| geothermal | energy produced from the earth column of water and team into the air
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| mixed economy | a system combinding diffrent degrees of goverment regulation
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| dialect | variaions of laguage that are unique to a region or coumunity
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| impressionism | this school of are sought to capture feeting visual impressions made by color light and shadows
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| nationalize | brought under state controal sien businesses cibsudered vital to national intrests
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| recession | an extended decli in business activity
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| confederation | or losse political union
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| reparation | money for war damages
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| inflation | or sharply rising prices ruined the value if germanys currency
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| lignite | a soft brown coal
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| dike | or embanksments of earth and rock to hold back the water
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| polder | beginning in te 1200 the dutch used wind mills to power the pumps that removed water from the land
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| decentralize | its goverment that is transfer 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 good | meaning that it does not stay fresh for long most of it is turned into processed products like chocolate and heese for export
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| strip mining | where minersstrip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral depostits
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| navigable | deep and wide enough ti allow the passage of ships
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| dry farming | a farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gathier moisture
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| sirocco | a hot dry wind from northjern africa
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| hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence
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| seismic activity | earthquakes and valacno erupshions
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| subsidence | a gllogical phenimenon in wich the ground in an area sinks
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| renaissance | the revival of art literature and learning that tood place in europe durng the fourteenth fifteenth and sictheenth centuries
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| garben | a long narrow are that has dropped between two faults
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| inhabitable | able to support permanent residents
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| tsunami | a huge wave caused primarily by a dusturbance beneath the ocean such as an earthquake or a valcano eruption
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