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Métis
A person of mixed French-Canadian and Native American ancestry.
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Metropolitan area
A functional area, including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked economically.
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Microcredit
The lending of small sums to poor people to set up or expand small businesses.
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Micronesia
One of three regions in Oceania, meaning “tiny islands.”
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Microstate
A political entity that is tiny in area and population and is independent or semi-independent.
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Middle Eastern ecological trilogy
The model of mostly symbiotic relations among villagers, pastoral nomads, and urbanites in the Middle East.
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Midwest
The region that contains the 12 states of the north-central United States.
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Migrant
Migrant: a person moving from one place or country to settle in another.
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Migration
The movement of peoples within a country or region.
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Milpero
A Latin American farmer who engages in swidden or shifting cultivation in forest lands.
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Mineral
A natural substance found in rocks of the Earth, such as a metal; removed by mining.
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Minifundia
Small Latin American agricultural landholdings, usually with a strong subsistence component.
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Missionary
Missionary: a person who goes abroad trying to convert others to his or her particular religion.
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Mississippi River
A major river that runs north-south almost the length of the united states, from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, is part of the longest river system.
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Mixed forest
A transitional area where both needleleaf and broadleaf trees are present and compete with each other.
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Mobility
The pattern of human movement typically changing because of continual improvement in means of transportation.
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Mobutu Sese Seko
Zaire’s leader, which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from its independence in the 1960s until 1997. He brought the country’s businesses under national control, profited from the reorganization, and used the army to hold power.
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Modekngei
A hybrid of Christianity and ancient Palauan culture and oral traditions founded around 1915 on Babeldaob.
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Mollisols
Thick, productive, and durable soils, such as the chernozem, whose fertility comes from abundant humus in the top layer.