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City state | Greece mountainous landscape and closeness to the sea influenced the ancient Greeks. |
Enlightenment | people in the 1600 and 1700 started questioning the traditional and values which started political and economic revolutions that swept the entire region. |
Communism | A philosophy that called for a society based on economic equality in which the workers would control the factories and industrial production. |
reparations | To payback for being responsible for his or her actions. |
Holocaust | The mass killing of more than 6 million European Jews and others by Germany's Nazi leaders. |
Dialect | Local forms of languages |
Cold war | A power struggle between the communist world,led by the soviet union,and the non communist world,led by the united states. |
state farms | Not sharing in the profits but getting wage like factory workers. |
Hydroelectric power | Power generated by falling water, and for drinking and irrigation. |
Permafrost | A permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground. |