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40 Cards in this Set
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Protected area where people are prohibited from fishing |
Marine reserve |
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Wearing away |
Erosion |
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To cut off the heads of an estimated 40,000 people |
Guillotine |
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Agreement to work toward a common goal |
Alliance |
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Long ditches that protected soldiers from the enemy's gunfire |
Trenches |
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Rights that people posses at birth |
Natural rights |
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Extremist |
Radicals |
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People who examine questions about the universe |
Philosophers |
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Hills, mountains, and plataues |
Uplands |
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An independent community that includes a city and its surrounding territory |
City-state |
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Upper-class nobleman |
Aristocrats |
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A community of living organisms and their natural environment |
Ecosystem |
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A government in which people can influence law and vote for representatives |
Democracy |
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To hold back water |
Polders |
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A strong sense of loyalty to one's country |
Nationalism |
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A way of working in which each person works on only one part of a product |
Factory system |
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Change their religion |
Convert |
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Mostly farmers |
Plebians |
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The science of finding position and planning routes |
Navigation |
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Reject |
Veto |
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A social structure that was organized like a pyramid |
Feudal systems |
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German tribes |
Barbarians |
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A human-made water passage used for travel |
Canal |
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Relaxed the penalty for sin |
Indulgences |
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A period of wealth and power during which democracy developed further and Greek cultured flourished |
Golden age |
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An area controlled by a distant country |
Colony |
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Mostly wealthy owners |
Patricians |
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Money to cover the losses suffered by the victors |
Reparations |
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Navigable routes of travel or transport |
Waterways |
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Where six million Jews and other victims have been murdered |
Concentration camps |
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The manufacturing of cloth |
Textile |
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Bodies of water surrounded on three sides by land |
Bays |
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An artistic way of showing objects as they appear to people in terms of relative distance or depth, as if in three dimensions |
Perspective |
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The deep narrow bays of Norway |
Fjords |
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Which carried water to parts of the empire |
Aqueducts |
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The boats and ships can travel easily on them |
Navigable |
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A form of government in which the people elect officials who govern according to law |
Republic |
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A body of land surrounded on three sides by water |
Peninsula |
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Denied black south Africans their rights |
Apartheid |
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Who farmed the lord's land in return for shelter and protection |
Serfs |
