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Chapter 15: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century

Vocabulary:

  1. bankrupt - unable to pay one's debts

  2. centennial - a 100th anniversary or its celebration

  3. converge - to come together

  4. discrimination - the treating of some people better than others without any fair or proper reason

  5. diverse - differing from one another

  6. global - worldwide

  7. inequality - the quality of being unequal

  8. millennium - a period of 1,000 years

  9. nomination - the act or process of being recommended

  10. prosperity - the state of being successful

  11. technology - development and use of devices, machines, and techniques to be productive

  12. urban - relating to a city

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