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Flashcards by Karli Słomka, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Karli Słomka
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Deep and wide enough to allow ships to pass | Navigable |
| Hot dry winds from Northern Africa that blow over southeastern Spain | Siroccos |
| A center point of concentrated activity and influence | Hub |
| Having many earthquakes and volcanic erruptions | Seismically Active |
| A great period of art and learning that started in Italy in the 1300's and spread throughout Europe | Renaissance |
| A people's sense of what makes them a nation | National Identity |
| A section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live as a result of either economic or social pressures | Ghetto |
| The execution of 6 million Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II | Holocaust |
| A revolution without bloodshed that occurred in Czechoslovakia in the late 1980's | Velvet Revolution |
| The process of selling government-owned industries and businesses to private owners | Privatization |
| Government-owned farms where workers are paid by the government and share the profits from their products | Collective Farms |
| A layer of soil just below the earth's surface that stays permanently frozen | Permafrost |
| In the former Soviet Union, any one of various governing councils that made decisions at various levels | Soviet |
| An economic system in which the government dictates what goods will be manufactured | Command Economy |
| The production of goods such as steel and machinery used by other industries | Heavy Industry |
| A Russian word meaning "Openness"; in the former Soviet Union, a policy allowing citizens to do and say what they wished | Glasnost |
| A Russian word meaning "A turning about"; in the former Soviet Union, a policy of economic restructuring | Perestroika |
| Peoples who are outnumbered by members of another, dominant, culture in their republics | Eithnic Minorities |
| The intentional destruction of a people | Genocide |
| The desire of a cultural group to rule themselves as a separate nation | Nationalism |
| Huge portable tents that nomadic herders in central Asia live in | Yurts |
| Land to be governed on behalf of the League of Nations until it was ready for independence | Mandate |
| Member of a movement founded to promote the establishment of an independent Jewish state in Palestine | Zionist |
| The right to decide your own political future | Self-Determination |
| Without religious influence | Secular |
| Past ruler of Iran | Shah |
| A religious leader among Shiite Muslims | Ayatollah |
| An ethnic minority in Turkey | Kurds |
| Egyptian farmers who grow crops without the aid of modern machinery | Fellaheen |
| A traditional Arab open-air market | Bazaar |
| The rulers of ancient Egypt | Pharaoh |
| Money that is invested in building and supporting new industries | Capital |
| Form of irrigation where farmers build walls around their fields to trap flood water and silt | Basin Irrigation |
| Artificial lake behind a dam | Reservoir |
| A system for providing additional water to crops year-round | Perennial Irrigation |
| Dry riverbeds and sharp gullies across the North African Desert that catch and temporarily hold water from sudden downpours | Wadi |
| Large groups of merchants who have joined together to travel the desert in safety | Caravans |
| The older Arab sections of North African cities that are usually centered around mosques | Medinas |
| North African market areas in a medina | Souks |
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