chapter 12-14
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| fjord | a long narrow,deep inlet of the sea between steep slopes.
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| uplands | a hill or very low mountain that may also contain mesas and high plateaus.
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| mesta | the central plateau of sapin.
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| massif central | the uplands of france with account for about one sixth of french lands.
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| peat | partially decay plant matter found in bogs.
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| north atlantic drift | a current of warm water from the tropics.
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| sirocco | a hot,steady south wind that blows from north africa across the mediterranean sea into southern europe, mostly in spring.
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| mistral | a cold dry wind from the north.
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| dike | an eastern bank used to direct or prevent the passage of water.
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| polder | land that is reclaimed from the sea or other body of water by diking and drainage.
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| seaworks | a structure used to control the seaś destructive impact on human life.
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| terpen | high earthen platforms used in seaworks.
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| zuider zee | former inlet of the north sea in the netherlands.
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| ljsselmeer | a freshwater lake separated from the north sea by a dike and borded by polders.
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| city state | an autonomous political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands.
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| republic | a government in witch citizens elect representatives to rule on their behalf.
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| christianity | religion based on the life and teachings of jesus of nazaerth.
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| roman catholicism | major branch of christianity centerned in rome.
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| eastern orthodoxy | major branch of christianity also called greek orthodoxy.
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| crusades | a series of wars launched byeuropean christians 1096 to capture the holy land.
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| renaissance | a time of renewed interest in learning and the arts that lasted from the 14th through 16th centuries.
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| aqueduct | a structure that carries water over long distances.
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| benelux | the economic union of belgium ,the nertherlands,and luxembourg.
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| reformation | a movemnent in witch in western euroupe beginnings in 1517 when many christians broke away from the catholic church and started proteststant churches.
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| protestant | major branch of christianity witch began during the reformation with protests aginst practrices of the rome catholic churches.
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| berlin wall | a wall erected by east germany in 1961 to cut the capital of berlin in two.
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| nationalism | the beleif that people should be loyal to their nation.
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| holocaust fuedalism | the nazi program of mass murder of europena jews during world warr 2
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| nordic countries | countries of northern europens.
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| parliament | a respresentative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed.
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| euro | a common currency proposed by the european union.
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| silicon glen | the section between scottland glosgo and edinburg.
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| cultural crossroads | a place were many cultures cross paths.
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| balkanization | the process of breaking up a region into small units.
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| satellite nation | a nation dominated by another nation.
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| market economy | a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined.
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| folk art | a handmade item.
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| anti semisism | discrimination against jewish people.
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| slobodan milosevic | siberian leader
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| south slavs | a person who migrated from poldand or russia and settled in the balkan peninsula around.
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| ethnic cleansing | the policy of trying to eliminate an ethnic group.
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| KLA | a group that fought against serbian attempts to control the region of kosovo in the 1990s.
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| vojislav kostunica | a reform leader.
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| cyanide | a deadly poison.
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| european envirolmental agency | an agency that provides the eroupean union with relaible infromation about the enviroment.
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| particulates | a very small perticale of liquid or solid matter.
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| smog | a brown haze that occurs when gases release by burning of fossilfuels.
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| ozone | a chedmical created when burning fossil fuels react with sunlight.
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