| A | B |
|---|
| aqueduct | used to bring water into the city |
| monarchy | a country with a king or queen |
| cuneiform | a form of writing used in Mesopotamia |
| irrigation | a way to bring water to crops |
| delta | the mouth of a river |
| precipitation | rain,snow,sleet,hail |
| elevation | how high something is |
| sphere | the earth's shape |
| grids | used to show location |
| isthmus | strip of land that connects 2 continents |
| population density | average number of people who live in an area |
| timeline | shows the order of events |
| atlas | a collection of maps |
| nationalism | loyalty to your country |
| Holocaust | murder of 6 million Jews |
| landlocked | a country with no seacoasts |
| fjord | narrow ocean inlet |
| taiga | northern forests |
| steppes | grasslands |
| Glasnost | when the soviets became more open and less secretive |
| communism | common ownership of land and business |
| collective farms | the peasants combined their farms |
| Crusades | religious wars totake away Muslim control of the Holy Land |
| feudalism | a system where the economy was based on agriculture |
| movable type | invented by Gutenberg |
| Renaissance | period that followed the Middle Ages |
| Magna Carta | document that guarteed the rights of nobles |
| Industrial Revolution | a time when the growth of factories led to more cities |
| free enterprise | when people have choices how to spend their money |
| genocide | the mass killing of a group of a selected people |
| Parthenon | a temple for the goddess aAthena |
| civilization | specialized jobs,educated,live in cities |
| A.D. | stands for anno domini |
| B.C. | before the birth of Christ |
| Nazi | a person who supported Hitler |
| Nordic | refers to Norway,Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland |
| straits | form an outlet to the water like the Dardanelles and Bosporus |
| North Sea | contains resources like oil and natural gas |
| lines of latitude | run parallel to the Equator |
| lines of longitude | run from the north to the south pole |
