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North and South America
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Geography
Undergraduate 1
11/12/2013

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Archipelago
Definition
chain of islands
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Polyglot State
Definition
more than one official language
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Tariff
Definition
a tax on imported goods and services
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Continentality
Definition
Major Climate factor in Russia. Inland climatic environment remote from moderating and moistening maritime influence
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Tierra Caliente
Definition
Pseudo-climatological term coined to mean in Latin America for places with tropical climates.
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Isthmus
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Narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
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Humid America
Definition
Anything east of the 100 meridian going through the middle of America
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Glasnost
Definition
A soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information
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Free trade
Definition
doesn't discriminate between any imports or exports
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Plantation
Definition
an example is the rimland. Usually a single cash crop is produced for export in exchange for capital and technology
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Primary Sector
Definition
with spatial economy.. Land
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Taiga
Definition
Snow forest boreal forest dominated by coniferous trees.. Dfb and Dfc
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Quebec Act
Definition
Promise between Britain and French that the French could keep land in St. Lawrence River if they helped them fight against the southern colonies aka America
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Megalopolis
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A large city or an area with multiple large cities for example BOSNYWASH
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Altitudinal Zonation
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Found in Middle and South America. Temp decreases with altitude. Has a great impact of which crops can be grown and where.
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exclave
Definition
A territory of one state surrounded by a territory of the same state. example- Kaliningrad in Russia
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NAFTA
Definition
North American Free Trade Agreement between America, Canada, and Mexico on January 1, 1994.
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Maquiladoras
Definition
a assembly and manufacturing plant in Mexico that takes advantage of low wages and cheap work
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Elongated Country
Definition
For example, Chile
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Peter the Great
Definition
Founder of Modern Russia, Built St. Petersburg
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Definition
general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Vladimir Putin
Definition
President of Russia
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Stephen Harper
Definition
Canada Prime Minister
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Aztecs
Definition
Middle American Hearth.. Located in the Valley of Mexico. 1300 A.D. Tenochtitlan
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Dilma Rousseff
Definition
President of Brazil
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Simon Bolivar
Definition
Venezuelan military leader
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Fidel Castro
Definition
Cuban Communist Revolutionary
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Jean Gottman
Definition
Geographer who studied megalopolis of BOSNYWASH
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Hugo Chavez
Definition
President of Venezuela
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Chechens
Definition
Caucasian native people from the Northern Caucasus region of Eastern Europe
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Mestizo
Definition
Mainland is where the Mestizo people are found. People lived off the land.
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Oligarchs
Definition
Power rests with a small group of people because of either power, loyalty, wealth etc. (Russia)
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Inca
Definition
Western South America. Peaceful assimilation
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Mayans
Definition
200-900 A.D. Yucatan Peninsula. Theocratic Structure
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Hernan Cortez
Definition
Sent by the governor of Cuba to conquer the Aztecs
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Inuit
Definition
derogatory term for eskimos in Canada
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Czarina Catherine (Catherine the Great)
Definition
Pushed Russias border to Black Sea. Penetrated corridor between Black and Caspian Sea. Entered Alaska
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Cristina Kirchner
Definition
President of Argentina
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Enrique Pena Nieto
Definition
New President of Mexico
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John Augelli-
Definition
Latin American geographer
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Amerindiano
Definition
native american
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Latin America
Definition
Mexico and down
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Mainland-Rimland
Definition
Mainland (European and Indian, Mestizo)Hacienda cattle holding institution
Rimland (Africans and Europeans, Mulatto) plantation/crop export
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