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20 Cards in this Set
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Treeless, windy Highland area with damp ground
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Moor
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Narrow bay that reaches for inland.
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Loch
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Forms of money
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Currency
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Transfer of certain powers from central to regional governments
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Devolution
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Government in which voters elect representatives to a law-making body headed by a Prime Minister.
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Parliamentary Democracy
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Government headed by a King or Queen but run by elected officials.
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Constitutional Monarchy
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Wet ground with decaying plants that can be dried and used for fuel
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peat
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wet, swampy land
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bog
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Descibes a body of water wide and deep enough to allow passage of ships
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navigable
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Strong national government headed by elected leaders
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Republic
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Superhighway
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Autobahn
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Systematic murder of more than 6 million European Jews by Adolph Hitler and his followers during WWII
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Holocaust
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Country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole
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Communist State
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Government divided between national and state powers
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Federal Republic
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Bringing together the two parts of Germany under one government
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Reunification
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Transportation & Communications networks on which the economy depends.
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Infrastructure
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Refusing to take sides in disagreements and wars between countries.
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Neutrality
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Area of land reclaimed from the sea
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Polder
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Firm that does business in several countries
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Multinational company
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Able to speak several languages
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Multilingual
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