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Chapter 18-20 vocab

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Domestication   The process of training and breeding animals for use by humans  
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Communism   A system government in which the government controls the means of production, determining what goods will be made, how much workers will be paid, and how much items will cost  
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Eurasia   The name some geographers suggest should be used for the landmass of Europe and Asia  
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Inland Sea   A sea that is almost completely surrounded by land  
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Tundra   A dry, treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow  
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Taiga   Thinly scattered coniferous forests found in Europe and Asia  
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Steppe   A temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia  
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Multiethnic   Composed of many ethnic groups  
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Ethnic Group   People who share such things as culture, language , and religion  
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Acid Rain   Rain whose high concentration of chemicals, usually from industrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plant and animal life, and eats away the surface of stone and rock: form of chemical weathering  
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Infant Mortality   Number of children per 1,000 live births who die within the first year  
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Maternal Mortality   The number of women who died due to pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100,000 live births  
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Life Expectancy   The number of years an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics  
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National Identity   A persons sense of what makes them a nation  
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Ghetto   A section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live  
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Holocaust   The execution of 6 million Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II  
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Velvet Revolution   A revolution without bloodshed, which took place in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980s  
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Privatization   The process of selling government-owned industries and business to private owners  
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Collective Farms   A government-owned farm managed by workers who share the profits from their produce  
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Balkanize   To break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as occurred in the Balkans after World War I  
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Entrepreneur   A go-getter individual who starts and builds a business  
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Multiplier Effect   The effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy  
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Annex   To formally incorporate into a country or state the territory of another  
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Diversify   To increase the variety of  
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Chernozem   A rich topsoil found in the Russian steppes and other mid-latitude grasslands  
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Permafrost   A layer of soil just below the earth's surface that stays permanently frozen  
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Czar   An emperor of Russia  
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Abdicate   To surrender one's office, throne, or authority  
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Soviet   In the former Soviet Union, any one of various governing councils  
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Command Economy   An economic system that is controlled by a single central government  
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Glasnost   A policy of openness introduced in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's  
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Perestroika   In the former Soviet Union, a policy of economic restructuring  
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Ruble   The currency of Russia  
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Black Market   The system of selling goods and services outside of official channels  
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