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General World Cultures Final Review Crossword

Down: 2) group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or a combination of such characteristics 3) manufacturing aimed at making consumer goods, such as textiles or food processing rather than heavy machinery 5) an economic system in which business leaders use profits to expand their companies 6) one who flees his or her home for safety 7) in medieval Europe and Japan, a system of government in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty 11) power struggle between the Soviet Union and the U.S. after WWII 13) organization in which farmers share in growing and selling farm products 14) material contaminated by residue from the generation of nuclear energy 15) the rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power-driven machinery 17) wide, grassy plains of Eurasia; also, similar semiarid climate regions elsewhere 19) Russian term for vast subarctic forest, mostly evergreens, that covers much of Russia and Serbia 21) in nineteenth-century Russia, a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian 26) self-rule 29) artistic style emphasizing individual emotions that developed in Europe in the late 1700s and early 1800s as a reaction to industrialization 31) the by-product of producing nuclear power 34) the expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups 35) ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution 36) laborer obliged to remain on the land where he or she works 37) in czarist Russia, an attack on Jews carried out by government troops or officials 38) the manufacture of machinery and equipment needed for factories and mines 41) a payment for damages 45) Russian term for a new "openness" in areas of politics, social issues, and media; part of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform plan 46) water formed by melting snow and ice 47) vast, treeless plains in cold northern climates, characterized by permafrost and small, low plants, such as mosses and shrubs 49) a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence 50) series of religious wars (A.D. 110-1300) in which European Christians tried to retake Palestine form Muslim rule

Across: 1) religious movement that began in Germany in the late 1400s, leading to the establishment of Protestant churches 4) the effect of extreme variations in temperature and very little precipitation within the interior portions of a landmass 6) artistic style portraying everyday life that developed in Europe during the mid-1800s 8) the belief that there is no God 9) farming method used in dry regions in which land is plowed and planted deeply to hold water in the soil 10) chemical used to kill insects, rodents, and other pests 12) a country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union by the end of WWII 16) gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect 17) a grant or gift, especially for money 18) illegal trade of scarce or illegal goods, usually sold at high prices 20) the use of natural substances rather than chemical fertilizers and pesticides to enrich the soil and grow crops 22) a movement during the 1700s that emphasized the importance of reason and questioned traditions and values 23) products and services that directly satisfy human wants 24) realistic style of art and literature that glorified Soviet ideals and goals 25) system of resource management in which decisions about production and distribution of goods and services are made by a central authority 27) rich, black topsoil found in the Northern European Plain, especially in Russia and Ukraine 28) large, distinct ethnic group within a country 30) intellectual elite 32) the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500 33) food sources, the genes of which have been altered to cause increase in size and speed the growth or greater resistance to pests 39) a change to private ownership of state-owned companies and industries 40) a 1992 meeting of European governments in Maastricht, the Netherlands, that formed the European Union 42) the division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other 43) raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm 44) nation in which the government assumes major responsibility for people's well-being in all areas such as health and education 48) person actively concerned with the quality and protection of the environment 51) in Europe, a 300-year period of renewed interest in classical learning and the arts, beginning in the 1300's 52) political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production 53) wet or dry airborne acids that fall to the earth 54) a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized, usually European, country 55) 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 56) the mass killings of 6 million Jews by German's Nazi leaders during WWII 57) the period between 1921 and 1991 when Russia was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 58) an economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned, and production and prices are determined by supply and demand 59) an organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods, services, and workers can move freely among member countries 60) in Russian, "restructuring"; part of Gorbachev's plan for reforming Soviet economy and government 61) in ancient Greece, independent community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands

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