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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Uplands

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hills or very low mountains that may also contain mesas and high plateaus

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Fjord

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steep U-shaped valleys that connect to the sea and that filled with seawater after the glaciers melted

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Meseta

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low mountain areas of Brittany in France, and the central plateau of Spain

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Massif Central

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one-sixth of French lands are located in the uplands

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Peat

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partially decayed plant matter found in bogs

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North Atlantic Drift

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current of warm water from the tropics, flows near Europe’s west coast

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Mistral

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cold, dry wind from the north

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sirocco

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hot, steady south wind that blows from North Africa across the Mediterranean Sea into Southern Europe

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Dikes

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earthen banks

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polder

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Land that is reclaimed by diking and draining

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seaworks

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structures that are used to control the sea’s destructive impact on human life

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Terpen

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high earthen platforms

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Zuider Zee

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was an arm of the North Sea and is now a freshwater lake

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Ijsselmeer

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saltwater flowed into that body of water, it eventually became a freshwater lake.

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City state

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political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands

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Republic

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government in which citizens elect representatives to rule in their name

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Crusades

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series of wars to take the Holy Land from the Muslims

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Renaissance

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which began in the Italian city-states, was a time of renewed interest in learning and the arts that lasted from the 14th through 16th centuries

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Aqueducts

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structures that carried water for long distances, and Muslim mosques, places of
worship

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Benelux

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countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg have their own cultures

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Reformation

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period when many Christians broke away from the Catholic Church and started Protestant churches

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Feudalism

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was a political system in which powerful lords owned most of the land

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Nationalism

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belief that people should be loyal to their nation, the people with whom they share land, culture, and history

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Holocaust

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program of mass murder of two-thirds of European Jews and the murder of other minorities

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Berlin Wall

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Divided

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Nordic countries

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Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

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Parliament

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is a representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed

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Silicon Glen

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section of Scotland betweenGlasgow and Edinburgh

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Euro

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common currency of Europeans

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Slobodan Milošević

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“tried to increase Serbia’s power over the rest of Yugoslavia”

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South Slavs

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“group of South Slavs (the Croats, the Slovenes, and the Serbs) formed its own kingdom.
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ethnic cleansing

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“policy of trying to eliminate an ethnic group through violence”

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Kla

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Kosovo Liberation Army

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Vojislav Kostunica

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“Yugoslav people elected a reform leader”

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Cyanide

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Deadly poison

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European Environmental Agency

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“provides the EU with reliable information about the environment”

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particulates

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“very small particles of liquid or solid matter”

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smog

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“brown haze that occurs when the gases released by burning fossil fuels react with sunlight to create hundreds of harmful chemicals”

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ozone

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“form of oxygen that causes health problems.
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