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| name for a broad region covering between China, Afghanistan and the former USSR. |
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| Besides the common def. of Geography what does it also include? |
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| A study of relations with people and other places. |
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| Who were the first geographers? |
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| The Greeks over 2,000 years ago. |
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| What is the smallest continent? |
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| What area is there distortion in the globe? |
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| Land areas around the poles |
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| Because of their mountainous region what land remained Christian while the rest turned muslim conquered? |
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| The Ghegs in Albania, while the delta region got conquered. |
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| Which are the Baltic Republics? |
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| Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. |
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| When did Lithuania declare indep? |
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| When did Georgia declare indep? |
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| What is the Lena River Delta? What is its significance? |
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| It is Russia's cradle of life. |
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| what are some of the Artic Rivers? |
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| Lena, Ob, N. Divina, and Yenesi. |
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| What is the Lake in Siberia? The River? |
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| Lake Baikal, and the Angara River |
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| What is the population of Israel? Religious percentages? |
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| 4.5 mil people. 82% Jewish 14% Muslim |
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| What is the population of Egypt? Religious percentages? |
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| 55 mil. people. 90% Arab, 90% Muslim |
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| What is the population of Jordan? Religious percentages? |
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| 4 mil people. 95% Sunni, 50% Palestinian. |
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| What is the population of Saudi Arabia? Religious percentages? |
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| 15 mil. people. most all Muslim and Arab. |
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| What is the population of Kuwait? Religious percentages? |
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| What is the population of Iran? Religious percentages? |
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| What is the population of Turkey? Religious percentages? |
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| 57 million. almost all muslim. 12% are Kurdish. |
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| What is the population of Syria? Religious percentages? |
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| 13 million. 90% Arab and Muslim. 10% Christian. |
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| What is the population of Iraq? Religious percentages? |
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| 18 mil people. 75% Arab, 15% Kurdish, 95% muslim, 60% Fundamentalist shiite & 35% Funda. sunni |
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| Where was the Garden of Eden located in Iraq? |
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| What is E. Euro's first problem? |
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| What is E. Euro's first problem? |
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| Its proximity to Asia. Has been W. Euro's buffer zone. |
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| What is the significance between the Carpathian mountains and the constant invasion of E. Euro? |
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| They provide no barriers as they run from east to west leaving the sidelines open. |
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| What has led E. Euro open to invasion from the turks? (geographically)? |
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| The Balkan river valleys, the Danube river. |
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| What were the countries that once made Yugoslavia? |
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| Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Serbia, montenegro, and macedonia. |
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| What consisted of New Yugoslavia? |
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| He was one accused of war crimes in Yugoslavia. (ethnic hatred) |
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| What Former Yugoslavian country has a history of violence for communist agendas? |
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| Albania. Who tried to oppress women and Christians. |
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| What has the country Albania been embraced to join? |
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| What countries were turned into soviet countries under the nonaggression pact aka Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? |
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| Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Estonia. Basically filling the gap between Germany and Soviets which prob made it easier to invade them later. |
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| What concerns high politics? |
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| Peace and collective security |
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| What concerns low politics? |
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| Trade, environment, and communications. |
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| What is tangible power? Intangible power? |
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| what are the real names for the Transylvania Alps? |
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| The Karpathian mountains. |
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| An Intergovernmental Organization |
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| What is the largest mass of land that is a country that exists from former Yugoslavia? |
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| Political units coming together under one authority. |
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| What was EU known as in the beginning? What were they about? |
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| The European Community- which was about economic cooperation. |
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| What treaty advanced the EC into the EU? |
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| The Maastricht Treaty which added cooperation in defense and foreign policy. |
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| How many members do the EU have? |
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| Who has opposed expansion in the EU? (countries) |
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| What was the warsaw pact? |
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| a military response including EU. turkey. US, Iceland, Norway, and Canada. |
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| What is the partnership for peace? |
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| a NATO prog. designed to create more relations with them individually to encourage involvement with euro. and former soviet. |
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| What was the warsaw pact? |
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| A soviet bloc pact against W Germany's integration into NATO in 1955. |
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| Who called NATO's Kosovo war "humanitarian"? |
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| Who was a mass murderer in Ethiopia? |
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| What was the Kragujevac Massacre? |
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| In WW2, German soldiers annihilated 2,300 Serbian men and boys in Yugoslavia. |
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| Yugoslavian president accussed of 66 war crimes against humanity |
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