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15 Cards in this Set
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Fjord
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a long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled by seawater
Sentence: The rugged Spanish coast is indented by many fjord-like inlets |
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Geyser
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a spring that throws forth intermittent jets of heated water and steam
Sentence: The geyser district is held as a national domain, the Yellowstone Park. |
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Welfare stateFrag
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a state that assumes primary responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens
Sentence: For libertarian capitalists, a time before the welfare state imposed its restrictions on almightyfreedom. |
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Industrial Revolution
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beginning in the 1700s, rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power-driven machinery
Sentence:In the mid-1700s, the Industrial Revolution transformed manufacturing in Europe with the change from human labor to machines. |
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Industrial capitalism
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an economic system in which business leaders use profits to expand their companies
Sentence:Widespread industrial and social change created industrial capitalism, an economic system in which owners use profits to expand their companies. |
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Communism
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society based on equitable distribution of wealth, land, and public ownership of production
Sentence: There are no longer any traces of communism, and the colony's property is actually held by an organization of the local Roman Catholic church. |
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Cold War
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the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II
Sentence: After World War II, the division of Europe led to the Cold War, a power struggle between the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, and the noncommunist world, led by the United States. |
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City-state
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an independently governed community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands, notably present in ancient Greece
Sentence:Ancient Greece was a collection of city-states, each independent with its own form of government and society |
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Renaissance
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rebirth; the period in European civilization characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values
Sentence:Certain religious holidays, like Christmas and Easter, always create a renaissance in spirituality. |
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shatter belt
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a region where political alliances are constantly splintering and fracturing based on ethnicity; a region caught between stronger political groups, which is under constant stress and is sometimes fragmented as the result of conflicts between strong rivals
Sentence: Eastern Europe is known as a shatter belt region because it haspersistently, or constantly, experienced political and territorial splintering and fracturing along cultural and ethnic lines. |
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ethnic cleansing
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the expelling from a country or genocide of an ethnic group
Sentence:The ethnic cleansing in Bosnia is a human rights outrage and deserves international condemnation. |
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czar
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an emperor of Russia before 1917
Sentence:A partition treaty had been signed between these two powers in 1723, by which the czar was to take Astarabad, Mazandaran, Gilan, part of Shirvan and Daghistan. |
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Russification
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in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and the Soviet Union, a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian; assignment of some Russian-speaking people to non-Russian ethnic regions
Sentence: In short, complete Russification of all non-Russian populations and institutions was the chief aim of the government in home affairs. |
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black market
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illegal trade of scarce or illegal goods, usually sold at high prices
Sentence:The son then sold the mummy on the black market through his relatives in New York. |
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Privatization
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a change to private ownership of state-owned companies and industries
Sentence: Sometimes a public company will under go privatization when they get a new buyer that wants to change things up. |
