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The process of training and breeding animals for the use of humans.
Domestication
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.
Communism
The name some geographers suggest should be used for the landmass of Europe and Asia.
Euraisa
- A region where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow.
Tundra
A temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia.
Steppe
Composed of many ethnic groups.
Multiethnic
A section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live.
Ghetto
The execution of 6 million Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Holocaust
A revolution without bloodshed, which took place in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980s.
Velvet revolution
The process of selling government owned industries and business to private owners.
Privatization
A government owned farm managed by workers who share the profits from their produce.
Collective farm
To break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as occurred in the Balkans after World War I.
Balkanize
A go getter individual who starts and builds a business.
Entrepreneur
The effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy.
Multiplier effect
To formally incorporate into a country or state the territory of another.
Annex
To increase the variety.
Diversify
A region where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow.
Tundra
Thinly scattered, coniferous forest found in Europe and Asia
Taiga
A rich topsoil found in the Russian steppes and other mid-latitude grassland.
Chernozem
the layer of soil just above the earth’s soil that stays permanently frozen
Permafrost
An emperor of Russia.
Czar
To surrender ones office, throne, of authority.
Abdicate
In the former Soviet Union, any one of various governing councils.
Soviet
An economic system that is controlled by a single central government.
Command economy
A policy of openness introduced by the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s.
Glasnost
In the former Soviet Union, a policy of economic restructuring.
Perestroika
The currency of Russia.
Ruble
The system of selling goods and services outside of official channels.
Black market
A people’s sense of what makes them a nation.
National Identity