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General World Cultures Final Review Crossword

Down: 1) nation in which the government assumes major responsibility for people's well-being in all areas such as health and education 2) organization in which farmers share in growing and selling farm products 4) an economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned, and production and prices are determined by supply and demand 5) farming method used in dry regions in which land is plowed and planted deeply to hold water in the soil 7) the effect of extreme variations in temperature and very little precipitation within the interior portions of a landmass 8) raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm 9) group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or a combination of such characteristics 11) material contaminated by residue from the generation of nuclear energy 14) the rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power-driven machinery 15) the belief that there is no God 17) one that follows 21) gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect 24) large, distinct ethnic group within a country 25) water formed by melting snow and ice 26) a change to private ownership of state-owned companies and industries 27) political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production 33) in medieval Europe and Japan, a system of government in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty 34) the expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups 35) artistic style emphasizing individual emotions that developed in Europe in the late 1700s and early 1800s as a reaction to industrialization 37) system of resource management in which decisions about production and distribution of goods and services are made by a central authority 38) an organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods, services, and workers can move freely among member countries 40) manufacturing aimed at making consumer goods, such as textiles or food processing rather than heavy machinery 43) the division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other 44) in ancient Greece, independent community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands 45) artistic style portraying everyday life that developed in Europe during the mid-1800s 46) the by-product of producing nuclear power 49) the period between 1921 and 1991 when Russia was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 51) laborer obliged to remain on the land where he or she works 55) Russian term for vast subarctic forest, mostly evergreens, that covers much of Russia and Serbia 59) ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution

Across: 3) a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence 6) a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized, usually European, country 10) permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground 12) Russian term for a new "openness" in areas of politics, social issues, and media; part of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform plan 13) a painter who practices impressionism, the artistic style developed in Europe in the late 1800's in which dabs or strokes of color are used to give the effect of reflecting light 16) in nineteenth-century Russia, a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian 18) wet or dry airborne acids that fall to the earth 19) chemical used to kill insects, rodents, and other pests 20) one who flees his or her home for safety 22) rich, black topsoil found in the Northern European Plain, especially in Russia and Ukraine 23) the mass killings of 6 million Jews by German's Nazi leaders during WWII 28) person actively concerned with the quality and protection of the environment 29) a grant or gift, especially for money 30) intellectual elite 31) society based on equality in which workers control industrial production 32) an economic system in which business leaders use profits to expand their companies 36) realistic style of art and literature that glorified Soviet ideals and goals 39) illegal trade of scarce or illegal goods, usually sold at high prices 41) a member of the communist party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917 42) vast, treeless plains in cold northern climates, characterized by permafrost and small, low plants, such as mosses and shrubs 47) a country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union by the end of WWII 48) a 1992 meeting of European governments in Maastricht, the Netherlands, that formed the European Union 50) the manufacture of machinery and equipment needed for factories and mines 52) food sources, the genes of which have been altered to cause increase in size and speed the growth or greater resistance to pests 53) a movement during the 1700s that emphasized the importance of reason and questioned traditions and values 54) products and services that directly satisfy human wants 56) series of religious wars (A.D. 110-1300) in which European Christians tried to retake Palestine form Muslim rule 57) in the Soviet Union, a large farm owned and run by the state 58) precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings, forests, and crops, and kills wildlife 60) the use of natural substances rather than chemical fertilizers and pesticides to enrich the soil and grow crops 61) in Europe, a 300-year period of renewed interest in classical learning and the arts, beginning in the 1300's 62) self-rule 63) religious movement that began in Germany in the late 1400s, leading to the establishment of Protestant churches

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