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Federal republic

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A nation whose powers are divided among the federal or national government and various state and local governments.

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Feral animals

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Domesticated animals that have abandoned their dependence on people to resume life in the wild.

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Fertile Crescent

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The arc-shaped area stretching from southern Iraq through northern Iraq, southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and western Jordan, where plants and animals were domesticated beginning about 10,000 years ago.

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Fertility rate

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Fertility, or birthrate: the average number of children born to a woman of childbearing age.

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Feudalism

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A political system prevailing in Europe from about the 9th to about the 15th centuries in which a king allowed nobles to use his land in exchange for their military service and their protection of the land.