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| globes are more accurate have better land masses and distance |
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| Example of physical region: |
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| traditional, market, command, and mixed economy |
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| northern, southern, eastern, western |
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| better tools and knowledge. Hunted big animals. Traveled |
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| Africa’s tropical climates: |
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| Tropical wet, tropical wet and dry, desert, and Mediterranean climate |
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| wealthy and well-organized |
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| minerals- copper diamond cobalt, oil, |
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| on high plateaus, Christian beliefs |
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| traded across Atlantic, encouraged wars, increased tensions, disrupted societies |
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| Effects of European imperialism in Africa: |
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| took over lands, competed for control. Spread benefits of western civilization. |
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| Africa’s valuable resources: |
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| subsistence farmers, cash crops for export |
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| rigid separation of races by law in South Africa. |
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| juju music turned in rock. African rock art |
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| Problems facing African nations: |
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| regional and global issues. Debt, aids, cold war, disease |
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| Reason why African nations are organized into regional groups: |
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| encouraged economic development, and to strengthen position in the world. |
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| Election of nelson Mandela: |
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| first black pres. Of South Africa |
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| Benefits of oral literature |
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| griot told praises, events from history, riddles, morals and lessons. |
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| Traditional Chinese culture (treatment of women, respect for elders): |
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| young people had to respect elders. Women were inferior to men. |
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| British rule of Hong Kong: |
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| gave Britain Hong Kong and opened other ports of trade |
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| Sun yatsen (reason he was unable to achieve his goals): |
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| protestors refused to go home, army opened fire. |
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| Program of Deng Xiaoping: |
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| Turn away from Mao’s ideas, ease gov. strict economic goal. Welcome foreign investment |
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| better educated Chinese, pressed for democratic reforms. |
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| Japanese treatment of Koreans: |
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| forced them to build factories, roads, and railroads. And took their rice crop. Made Korean workers more productive |
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| there are communists and non communists |
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| Relationship between ancient Japan and china: |
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| Chinese culture and making it into their own |
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| Germany was hit hard, disastrous unemployment, caused |
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| Changing family life in Japan |
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| nuclear family replaced extended. Hardly any arranged marriages |
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| Japan’s economic miracle: |
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| borrowed tech. out produced aging factories |
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| Latin American geography: |
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| between Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. |
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| Native American culture after the Spanish conquest |
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| forced to do labor, poor food |
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| Spain and Portugal can claim non – Christian lands on either side of the imaginary line |
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| Mexico and South America, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, British. |
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| Mexico’s first attempt at independence: |
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| wrote a liberal constitution |
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| Problems facing modern Mexico and Brazil |
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| population expansion, debt crisis, and recovery |
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| 2 Latin American countries that had successful revolutions against the ruling elite: |
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| America’s foreign policy towards Latin America |
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| Cold War and Latin America |
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| Latin Americans were sympathetic to communism |
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| U.S. development in Puerto Rico |
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| gained after Spanish-American war |
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| literature/art of Latin America: |
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| spoke of social & political issues. Mural paintings |
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| U.S. claimed the right to intervene in Cuban affairs. |
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| arc shaped region. Stretches from eastern Mediterranean to Persian Gulf |
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| Shared beliefs of Jews and Christians: |
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| worship 1 god, read and study the Torah, believe that people and their leaders should live moral lives |
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| Geography of the Middle East: |
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| Northern Tier, Arabian Peninsula, Fertile Crescent, Nile Valley, the Maghreb |
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| Ancient kingdom of Israel: |
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| Located in Fertile Crescent formed in 1025 B.C. unified by King David and Judaism birthplace |
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| The Torah and contains laws and rules the Jewish people follow |
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| attraction of Christianity |
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| Christianity offered hope of salvation and eternal life |
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| In the Koran and contain the exact words of god as revealed to Muhammad |
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| 100 mile canal in Egypt linking Egypt and Palestine |
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| allowing of Jews from Eastern Europe to migrate and live in the Palestine. |
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| overthrowing of the Shaw and replacing it with theocracy |
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| Lebanese constitution gave more political power to Christians than Muslims. |
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| resulted in global oil crisis as prices rose |
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| Astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, physician. Poet well known |
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| cause of the Persian Gulf War : |
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| Iraqi armies occupying Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia |
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| Organization of Petroleum exporting countries. |
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| Reason Christian Crusaders invaded the Middle East |
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| 65. new language created when Arabic words blended into the Bantu languages : |
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| role of women in modem Middle Eastern society : |
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| responsible in house work and child care |
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| similarity between the Maya, Aztecs and Incas : |
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| in Latin America, all conquered by conquistadors |
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