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- many services are paid for by the gov.
- welfare state
- the process of becoming more like western Europe
- westernization
- people who run their own business in a system
- free enterprise
- a new piece of land reclaimed from the sea
- polder
- the practice of one country turning another into a colony
- imperalism
- a type of government run by citizens
- democracy
- the organization through which countries work toward peace
- United Nations
- a period in history in which there was a rebirth in art and learning
- Renaissance
- governments have to limit what they owe to other governments
- national debt
- a different version of a language found in a certain region
- dialect
- a free service or payment
- benefit
- a person who moves from one country to another
- immigrant
- the process of becoming unified again
- reunification
- a movement from place to place by a group
- migration
- a form of gov. in which the power of Kings and queens have a set of national laws
- constitutional monarchy
- the growth of cities
- urbanization
- a large governemnt owned farm
- collective
- Many countries have a large available supply or_____, of natural resources such as oil.
- reserves
- a rich black soil in the Ukraine
- chernozen
- In Europe winds have depoisited a type of rich, dust like soil known as_____
- loess
- where Americans spend money in another country improving a business for profit
- investor
- a large, raised area of mostly level land
- plateau
- to leave you hoemland
- emigrate
- treeless plain with grasses and mosses
- steppe
- a system in which services are paid for by the government
- welfare state
- an agreement between countries to protect one another
- alliance
- a painting of a saint
- icon
- a body of land nearly surrounded by water
- peninsula
- an elected official who stands for a group of people in an area
- representative
- when ships can not travel
- not navigable
- the mass murder of 6 million Jews during WW II
- holocaust
- a large available supply of natural resources
- reserves
- a holy place
- shrine
- Russian grassland
- steppe
- raw materials turned into finished products during the Ind. Rev due to _____
- manufacturing
- an area on the dry sheltered side of a mountain with little rain
- rain shadow
- a body of land surrounded by water
- peninsula
- an energy source from the remains of animals and plants
- fossil fuel
- a ruler who exercises complete power over his subjects
- absolute monarch
- gov. sometimes charge a fee, or _____ for goods
- tariff
- customs and practices that are passed from one generation to the next
- heritage
- customs and practices passed from generation to the next
- heritage
- In the Middle Ages, medevil lords owned land called
- manor
- many different cultures influence the way of life in a _____country
- multicultural
- During Ren, people improved their knowledge of the world
- humanism
- people who share things like culture, religion, or language
- ethnic group