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| 4 parts of europes physical landscape |
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| western uplands, north european lowland, central uplands, alpine system |
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| measures the strength of division in a region |
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| strength of binding, unifying glue in region |
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| renamed in 1995, hosts 27 member states |
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| how a country takes nationalism to the extreme and drives for autonomy or outright seccession |
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| Rhone-alps region, Lombardy, Catalonia, Baden-Wurrtemberg |
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| zone of consistent splintering and fracturing |
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| southern half of eastern europe that continues to fragment |
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| between russia it's numberous european neighbors to the west |
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| what raw materials spawned europes development? |
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| soils, rich fishing waters, animals, forests and now oil |
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| europes chief geographic resources |
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| at crossroads of land hemisphere. "peninsula of peninsula's" easy access to shipping lanes |
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| what was the industrial revolution |
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| 17th and 18th century industrialization has already been happening. picked up by the late 18th century. |
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| how did the political revolution after 1780 change europe |
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| french revolution ended powerful monarchs. extreme facism started one of the worst world wars |
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| is europe today an overall homogeneous regional unit? |
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| europe is a _________ urbanized realm |
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| central city plus it's suburban ring |
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| what countries make up western europe? |
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| france, germany, austria, switzerland, BENELUX, liechtenstein |
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| large urban areas when two or more cities merge spacially. a ring shaped complex that surrounds a still rural center |
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| what are switzerlands two leading cities? |
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| what city and river are synonymous with austria? |
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| what are the political components of the british isles? |
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| british hegemony (dominance) ended in the early 20th century |
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| what countries are in the mediterranien europe? |
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| spain, portugal, italy, greece |
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| Which important subregion of italy contains nearly helf its population and today functions as its economic core? |
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| what is meant by the term mezzogioorno? |
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| stagnant south part of Italy |
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| which countries are located on the iberian peninsula? |
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| where is spains major manufactoring center? |
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| what countries make up norden (northern europe) |
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| how have the seas favored norway in recent years? |
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| what economic activities form the base of finland's economy? |
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| what countries make up eastern europe? |
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| poland, ukraine, croatia, serbia...... |
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| where is poland's leading industrial region located? |
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| why was slovenia the most successful state to secede from former yugoslavia? |
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| it had a homogeneous ethnic complexion and a productive economy |
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| Why was Ukraine an economic-geographic conrnerstone of the former soviet union (ussr)? |
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| it links russia to the european core and forms the northern shore of the black sea from russia to romania. |
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