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| a hot steady south wind that blows from north africa across the mediterranean sea into southern europe |
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| steep u-shaped cally that connects teh sea and taht are filled w/ sea water after glaciers melt |
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| europe as a whole is a peninsula w/ peninsulas coming off of it/ helps economy because its easy to trade |
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| they cut tialy off from the rest of europe good for skiing and hiking (tourists) bad for italy because they have trouble w/ movement w/in europe |
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| cuts through the heart of europe from west to east touches 9 counties 1,771 miles long links europe to the black sea |
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| one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the world, relitively flat, armies and invaders can easily get into europe |
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| a nearly continuous belt of evergreen coniferous forests across the Northern hemisphere in North America and Eurasia |
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| the term used for the temperate grassland region in the northern hemisphere |
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| april 28 1986 (site of a soviet nuclear power plan nearly 800 miles away) nuclear accident releasing alot of radiation |
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| black topsoil one of teh worlds most fertile soils |
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| one of the republics that remains part of Russia after the collapse of the soviet union despite independence movements and violent upheaval |
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| name of the communist nation formed after russian revolution |
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| important trading capital from 1st-8th century a.d. (now ethopia); it flourished due to its location near the read sea and indian ocean |
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| group of14 european nations in 1884-1885 in berlin, germany; established rules for pulitical control of africa |
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| east african ethnic grouop taht lives on grasslands of the rift valleys in Kenya and Tanzania (heard livestock and farmland) often wear clotes made of calf skin or buffalo hide; women-long skirt robes, men-shorter version, intricate bead work and jewlery |
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| largest ethnic group in Kenya (6.6 million) homeland around mt. kenya, hearders, now live throughout the country and work in a cariety of jobs, organized a siciety when under british control (Mau Mau) british killed 11,000 africans mostly kikuyu during the mau mau rebellion between 1952 and 1960 |
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| grown for direct sale not for use in a region (coffee, tea, sugar, in africa) |
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| monotheistic religion based on the teachings of muhammed, biggest culture and religious influence in north africa |
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| algeria, type of music developed in 1920s by poor urban children- contains elements of pop western music |
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| state taht completely surrounds another state |
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| compact with large extension |
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| distance from center to any boundary is about the same |
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| discontinuous pieces of territory |
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| "shore of the desert" narrow band of grassland that runs east to west along the Southern edge of the Sahara. |
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| stores of underground water |
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| where water from an aquifer has come to the surface. it supports vegetation and wildlife |
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| home of the hindu goddess Ganga |
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| hindu god (represents the destroyer of ignorance) to followers he is everything |
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| so low that they aren't even in the caste system |
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| a sustem of underground brick lined tunnels and wells taht collect runoff water from the mountians |
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| water wheel run by the flow of water or animal power |
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| carries water over long distances |
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| an expansion of try conditions to moist areas taht are next to deserts |
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| land between teh rivers (rigris and euphrates) |
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| islam is based on his teachings; he founded the religion |
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| a fundamentalist fuslim political group taht imposed strict rules on peoples behavior |
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| religious leader rules the government (this is how the muslim government works) |
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