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Chapter 18-20
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Domestication | The process of training and breeding animals for use by humans. |
| Communism | A system of 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. |
| Eurasia | The name zome geographersn suggest should be used for the landmass of europe and asia. |
| Inland Sea | An area of lakes, creeks, and swams away from the ocean. |
| Tundra | A dry,treelss plainwhere temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow. |
| Taiga | Thinly scattered vnuferous forest found in Europe and Asia. |
| Steppe | A temperature grassland found in europe and asia. |
| Multiethnic | Composed of mamy ethnic groups. |
| Ethnic Group | People who share such things as culture, language, and region. |
| Acid rain | rain whose high concentration of chemicals, usually from imdustrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plant and animal life, eats away at the surface of stone and rock; a form of chemical weathering. |
| Infant Mortality | The number of children per 1,000live births who die within the first year. |
| Maternal Mortality | The number of women who ied du to pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100,000 live births. |
| Life Expectancy | The number of years an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics. |
| National Identity | A people sense of what makes them a nation. |
| Ghetto | A section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live. |
| Holocaust | The execution of 6 million jews in nazi concentration campus during world war II |
| Velvet Revolution | A revolution without bloodshed, which took place in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980. |
| Privatization | The process of selling government owned industries and business in the number of something. |
| Collective Farm | a government owned farm manage by workers who share the profits from their produce. |
| Balkanize | To break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as occurred in balkans after world war I. |
| Entrepreneur | a go getter individual who starts and builds a business |
| Multiplier Effect | The effect an investment ad in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy. |
| Annex | To formally incorporate into a country or state territory of another. |
| Diversify | To increase the variety of. |
| Chernoozen | A rich topsoil found in the russian steppes and other mid latitude grassland. |
| Permafrost | A layer of soil just below the earths surface that stays permanently frozen |
| Czar | An emperor of Russia |
| Abdicate | To surrender ones office throne or authority. |
| Soviet | In the former union any one of various governing councils. |
| Command ecnomy | An economic system that is controlled by a single central government. |
| Glasnost | A policy of openness introduction in the soviet union in the late 1980's |
| Perestroika | in the former soviet union a policy of economic restructuring. |
| Ruble | The currency of russia. |
| Black Market | The system of selling goods and services outside of official channels. |
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