Europe Vocab Flashcard

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a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.

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polder

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A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

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refugee

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A person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another.

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asylum seeker

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the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale

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globalization

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An economic and political association of European countries as a unit with internal free trade and common external tariffs.

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European Union

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The decrease in the number of people in a population

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negative population growth

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the authority of a state to govern itself or another state

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sovereignty

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a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries

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treaty

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A town near Kyiv in Ukraine where an accident at a nuclear power station in April 1986 resulted in serious radioactive contamination in Ukraine, Belarus, and other parts of Europe.

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Chernobyl

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a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley

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fjord