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Ch. 18-20 vocabulary

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Definition
show The process of training and breeding animals for use by humans  
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show A system of government in which the government controls the means of production, in what goods will be made, how much workers will be paid, and how much items will cost  
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show The name some geographers suggest should be used for the landmass of Europe and Asia  
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show A sea that is almost completely surrounded by land  
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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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multiethnic   show
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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 plant and animal life, and eats away at the surface of stone and rock; a form of chemical weathering  
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show The number of children per 1,000 live births who die within the first year  
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maternal mortality   show
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life expectancy   show
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show A people's sense of what makes them a nation  
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ghetto   show
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Holocaust   show
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velvet revolution   show
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show A government-owned farm managed by workers who share profits from their produce  
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privatization   show
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balkanize   show
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entrepeneur   show
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show The effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy  
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show To formally incorporate into a country or state the territory of another  
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diversify   show
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chernozem   show
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permafrost   show
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show An emperor of Russia  
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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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show A policy of openness introduced in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s  
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show In the former Soviet Union, a policy of economic restructuring  
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ruble   show
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show The system of selling goods and services outside of official channels  
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abdicate   show
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