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Chapter 18-20 Vocabulary

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show The process of training and breeding animals for use by humans.  
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Communism   show
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Eurasia   show
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Inland Sea   show
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show A dry, treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow.  
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Taiga   show
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show A temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia.  
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show Composed of many ethnic groups.  
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show People who share such things as culture, language, and religion.  
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show Rain whose high concentration of chemicals, usually from industrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plants and animal life, and eats away at the surface of stone and rock; A form of chemical weathering.  
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Infant Mortality   show
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show The number of women who died due to pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100,000 live births.  
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Life Expectancy   show
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National Identity   show
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show A section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live.  
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Holocaust   show
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show A revolution without bloodshed, which took place in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980's.  
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Privatization   show
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Collective Farm   show
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show To break up into, small mutually hostile political units, as occurred in the Balkans after World War 1.  
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Entrepreneur   show
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show The effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy.  
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Annex   show
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show To increase the variety.  
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show A rich topsoil found in the Russian steppes and other mid-latitude grasslands.  
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show A layer of soil just below the earth's surface that stays permanently frozen.  
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show An emperor of Russia.  
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show To surrender one's office, throne, or authority.  
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show In the former Soviet Union, any one of various governing councils.  
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show An economic system that is controlled by a single central government.  
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Glasnost   show
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Perestroika   show
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show The currency of Russia.  
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show The system of selling goods and services outside of official channels.  
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