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| biodiversity | living organisms in an environmental system |
| bishop | a high official in the Catholic Church |
| boyar | part of the Russian noble class that owned land |
| budget | a plan for how much money will be spent on each type of item that a person must buy |
| cabinet | a group of people appointed by a president or prime minister to help with administrative advice |
| caboclo | Brazilian-Portuguese word for mestizo |
| cajuns | Louisiana descendants of French Canadians |
| campesino | peasant of Latin America; usually a Spanish-speaking mestizo |
| Canadian Shield | plateau region of eastern Canada extending fromt the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River northward to the Arctic Ocean |
| Canberra | capital of Australia |
| cannibal | person who eats human beings |
| capital goods | goods used in the production of commodities |
| capitalism | economic system in which private owners control the production of goods and profit |
| cargo | items carried in ship, airplane, or vehicle |
| cargo cult | religion that believes goods or cargo from the West are gifts from the gods |
| Central powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire that fought against the Allied powers during WWI |
| Christianity | religion whose followers practice Jesus's teachings |
| city-state | sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory |
| classical music | formal instrumental music developed in 18th century Europe that is a model of musical excellence |
| climate zone | area which, due to latitude, altitude, Earth's winds, and the oceans' currents, tends to have certain weather patterns year after year |
| colony | a territory or body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state |
| Columbian Exchange | widespread exchange of agricultural goods, livestock, slave labor, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that occurred after 1492 |
| command economy | an economy that is planned and controlled by a central administration |
| Command Market of the South (MERCOSUR) | a 1991 free trade agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay |
| compound interest | interest computed on the acculmulated unpaid interest as well as on the original principal |
