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
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