Unit 1
Somewhat salty
Brackish
economic state where the government owns the property
communism
small group of people who control the government
oligarch
balkanization
laborers who could be bought and sold with the land
serfs
when the prices rise while goods and services slow
inflation
Area of high elevation
upland
a powerful leader of Russia
czar
mass murder of an ethnic group
genocide
all farmland owned by the government
collectivization