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Unit 5 Vocab Flashcards

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Uplands

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An area of high land or hills

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North Atlantic Drift

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Wind currents coming from the middle Western Hemisphere and are pushed upwards against Europe causing the climate to be moderate temperatures

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Westerlies

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Wind coming from the west

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Marine west coast climate

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Mild summers and winters with a lot of annual precipitation

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Mediterranean climate

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Warm and wet winters, hot and dry summers

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Humid continental climate

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Variating seasons of warm and cold weather, an effect of being inland

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Nordic countries

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The 5 most northern countries of Europe including; Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland

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Mistral winds

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Northwestern winds that blow out of France

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Sirocco winds

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A Mediterranean wind that blows from the Mediterranean Sea

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City-state

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A city that governs and runs like it’s its own state

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Democracy

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A governing system controlled by representatives of the citizens

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Republic

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A governing system focused on the people, controlled by the citizen’s representatives and voting

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Feudalism

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A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty, the holding of land and military service

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Nationalism

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Having a strong sense of pride for the country you live in

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Crusades

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A series of wars to conquer Palestine from Muslim control, there were 4 but only 3rd succeeded

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Renaissance

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A time period that developed out of the Italian peninsula that increased learning of arts and science, where all revolutions evolved

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Reformation

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A period where many Christians began to break away from the Catholic Church

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Mercantilism

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Also known as commercialism, belief in being benefitted by making profit

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Fascism

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Government run by military officers

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Industrialization

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The process of innovating and making ordinary systems and way of life better

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Sea works (dikes, polders, terpen)

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Reclaimed

D land from the sea, water pumped out

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Zuider Zee

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An area of water that will eventually be pumped out and made into land

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Aqueduct

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An artificial resoviour used to hold water

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Monarchy

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King and Queen born into power

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Parliamentary government

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A government system where the political party with the most representatives gets to rule the government for an entire time period

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Social welfare government

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A type of government that provides the needs of the people including social security, insurance and retirement safety

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Cultural crossroads

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When multiple cultures combine and cross each other

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Ottoman Empire

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Also known as Turkish empire ran by Muslims

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Balkanization

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The process of a region breaking up into smaller units

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Turmoil in Balkans

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Confusion in Balkans

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Satellite nations

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Nations that are politically dominated by one group of people

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Ethnic cleansing

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The process of killing or wiping out unwanted groups of people

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Anti-semitism

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Discrimination against Jewish people

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Holocaust

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Destruction on a mass scale, killing a large amount of people

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Berlin Wall

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Built yo split the city of Berlin after WW2

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EU

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Political and economical government system that doesn’t do military anything

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Euro

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what the European union countries use as their currency

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Chernozem

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Fertile, black, rich soil

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The Chunnel

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Under water train tunnel

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Transcaucasia

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a region of countries to the south of the caucasas mountains including present day Georgia, Armenia, and Azebaijan

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Eurasia

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The continent of Europe and Asia

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Taiga

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swampy coniferious forests region that is between the tundra and steppes

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Trans-Siberian railroad

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5785 miles long and is created to help connect the major cities of russia

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Disappearing Aral Sea

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sea in Russia, disappearing from over irrigation and from the over use of resources

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Baltic republics

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Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia

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Czar

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the name of Russia’s emperors

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Russian revolution

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a revolution where russians over threw their czar emperor

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USSR

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, established in1922 an consisted of Russia and 14 other asian countries

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Cold War

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political tensions between the soviet countries and us-led western countries

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Collective farm

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several farms or regions governed by one overall government

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Caspian sea

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used for fishing industry where there is lots of caviar

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Central Asia

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the middle region of asia that strecthes from the caspian sea to western China

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Silk roads

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a road that connected through Central Asia that connects China to Russia where people, goods, ideas, transportation evolved and traveled

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Nomads (& yurts)

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a group of people who do not have one stable place to call home but wander around, following their food supply

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Chechnya

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a region of southwestern Russia in northern caucasia

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Privatization

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the tranfer of publicly owned business to a private institution

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Distance decay

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theory which describes how the interaction of two regions decreases as the distance between them

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Human development index HDI

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statistical tool used to measure how a country has been doing overall

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Gender empowerment measure GEM

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measure between mena dnwomen’s rights in a country

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Fjord

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A steep, narrow, u-shaped valley carved out by a glacier which later turn into lakes

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