World History 2nd Semester Final Exam Review – Flashcards
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| What language and ways of life did the Roman nobility of the 1700s adopt? |
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| they adopted the french language and other western European ways of life |
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| What threatened the Soviet Union after it's fall? |
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| Ethnic complex and seperatest movements |
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| What group are Ethnic Russians part of? |
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| They belong to larger groups called Slabs |
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| Who was the 1st crowned Czar of Russia? |
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| Ivan the Terrible in 1533. |
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| What is important about Lake Baikal? |
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| Holds 1/5 of the worlds freshwater |
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| Name 3 Russian major trading parts. |
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| United States, Japan, European Union |
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| What is the Volga Valley the center of? |
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| Major manufactoring and industry |
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| What is the way of life for people living in the steppe climate zone called? |
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| Pastoralism |
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| What is the infrostructure of many cities like Africa? |
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| Falling apart, full of disease and poverty, can't support their people |
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| What is the major enviornmental debate in the Palestinian Israeli conflict? |
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| Scarcity of water |
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| What 2 things are making population grow? |
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| Improved health care & a high birth rate |
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How are most governments in North Africa, Southeast Asia, & Central Asis united? |
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| They are all ruled by Monarchs |
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| What percent of the world's oil is found in North Africa, SE Asia and Central Asia? |
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| 67% |
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| What's wrong with the Caspian Sea & the Aral Sea? |
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| Have the most serious enviromental problems |
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| Why is tourism popular? |
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| Area has religious amnd cultural importance |
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| What are petro-chemicals? |
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| Products derived from oil and natural gas |
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| What country uses canals to transport from the Jordan River? |
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| Israel |
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| What is an oil reserve? |
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| An available supply of oil |
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| What are the most abundant resources in South Asia? |
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| Minerals and water |
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| What are the Ethiopian Highlands? |
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| Part of the Eastern highlands |
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| What is Sahel? |
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| The steppe south of the Sahara |
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| What does the Great Rift Valley include? |
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| Volcanoes and large lakes |
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| What is Lake Volka? |
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| Human made lake |
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| What did the slave trade increase? |
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| When the Europeans needed more workers for Americas |
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| Why is the population of Africa south of the Sahara unevenly distributed? |
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| Because of land and climate |
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| Where do most people in Africe, south of the Sahara live? |
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| Along the West African coast and East coast of Southern Africa |
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| What influenced African music? |
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| American Jazz music |
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| Primary farming done in Africa? |
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| Subsistance |
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| Where are most mineral deposits found in Africa? |
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| Along the Atlantic coast and South of the Equator |
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| What E-Commerce done? |
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| Inable some Africans to sell their products directly over seas |
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| What are games reserves for? |
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| Is one way to protect wild animals in Africa |
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| What did Africa do to preserve the rainforests? |
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| The leaders of 6 Central African coutnries agreed to protect forests |
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| List some products of India's forest. |
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| Timber, rubber, sandlewood, redwood, etc |
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| What do the Himalaya Mountains do? |
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| Separate South Asia from the rest of Asia |
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| Describe the Indus River |
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| It flows through Pakistan and empties into Arabian Sea and is a cradle of ancient Indian civilization |
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| How many square miles is Maldiva made up of? |
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| 38,000 |
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| What feeds Northern Indian rivers? |
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| By snowmelt from Himalaya, Monsoons, water from 400,000 square mile basin |
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| Are windmills used in Africa? |
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| No |
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| What's unique about Sri Lanka? |
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| It is an island that brome away from original Indian land mass |
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| What is the world's largest alluvial plain? |
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| The Ganges Plains |
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| What does Islamabol mean? |
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| A religion |
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| What types of governtment fo Nepal and Bhutan have? |
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| Both have a monarchy form of government |
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| What do Hindus believe in? |
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| That most people are reborn as another living thing |
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| What group do most people in Pakistan belong to? |
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| Muslims |
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| How are the people of Bhutan and Napal different? |
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| By appearance becasue ancestors came from Mongolia |
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| Who was Mohandas Gandhi? |
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| An Indus, Beloved, Nonviolent, Political, Spiritual Leader |
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| What languages do they speak in Bangladesh? |
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| Bengail |
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| Who is India's largest religious group? |
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| Hindus |
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| What does Karma do? |
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| influence each person's future lives |
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| What makes up South Asia's farming? |
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| Subsistance farming and cash crops |
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| What is the problem with Kashmir? |
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| That both Pakistan and India disagree about it's politcal borders |
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| What is India'smain light industry? |
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| Taxtiles |
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| What was India's grew revolution? |
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| an effort to increas and diversity crop yields in India |
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| What is Hokkaido? |
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| Northern most of the major japanese islands |
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What are East Asia's dry highlands and grassland?
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| In the North and West |
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| Name China's main waterway systems |
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| Yellow River, Xi River, Yangtze River, Grand Cancal |
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| What's Unique about Mongolia? |
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| Only country in East Asia that is land locked |
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| What part of East Asia has a humid subtropical climate? |
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| South Eastern Quarter of East Asis |
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| What was Confucius system based on? |
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| Disipline and moral conduct |
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| What did the Japanese Empire look like? |
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| Made up of Kprea, Pacific Islands & Taiwan |
