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Despite much economic, political, and cultural diversity among the countries of Middle and South America, which one of the following characteristics do they have in common?

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Experience of colonies of Europe

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Which of the following statements describes a feudal social system (Feudalism)

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Organize rural area for defense against Viking and Muslims invadors

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What factors explain the rapid conquest of Middle and South America by Spain and Portugal

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Native Americans were vulnerable to diseases introduced from Europe

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What is the primary cause of contemporary population growth in the countries of Middle and South America

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High birth rates

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Which of the following describes the principal migration trend in Middle and South America

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Rural-to-urban movements

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The Benelux also called Low Countries is comprised of

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Belgium, Luxemburg, and Netherland

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The creation of the EU formalizes which of the following processes

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Economic integration of Europe

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Which of the following statement IS NOT among the three Pillars of the European Union

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High quality of living standard

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Which of the following family types constitutes the basic social institution in Middle and South America

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Extended families

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In what way did the catholic church change in the nineteenth century in Middle and South america

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The church became more attentive to the needs of the poor

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Which of the following factors holds that expansion of European capitalism created Latin American condition of underdevelopment

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Dependency theory

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Where do most manufacturing called Maquiladora take place in Mexico

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Along the U.S. border

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Which of the following IS NOT Europe climate types

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Arid and Semiarid climate

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Which of the following characterizes the purpose behind many of the migrations people make from Mexico to the United States

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To earn money that will be used to help out their families and communities in Mexico

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What is the name given to the set of values that governs the activities and movements of females in Middle and South America

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Marianismo

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Which statement most accurately describes the impact on the Native American population of the diseases that were introduced by Europeans to Middle and South America

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Ninety percent died within 150 years of first contact with Europeans

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Which of the following is largely responsible for the warm and wet climate of northwestern Europe

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The North Atlantic dift

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Which of the following best explains the high standard of living maintained by Europe's densely populated states

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Europe has exceeded its own resource base and depends on global resorues

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Which statement best describes the human landscape of Middle and South America just before its encounter with Europeans

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Many people were living in socially organized, technologically advanced cities

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What typically happens to profits generated by ranches and plantations in the Middle and South America

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They flow out of the country to foreign owners

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Which of the following is responsible for the negative rate of natural increase in Europe

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Low birth rates

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What term refers to the highest temperature-altitude zone above 12,000 feet in South America

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Tierra helada

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What was accomplished by the enactment of the Treaty of Tordesiallas

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the peaceful division of Middle and South America between Portugal and Spain

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What was the name of the Spaniard who conquered the Incan Empire

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Pizarro

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What accord is allowing a free movement of people across intra-European Union border

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The schengen accord

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Which of the following group is most likely to have first settled in the Middle/South America region

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Hunters and gatherers from northeastern Asia via the Bering land bridge

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Following the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, __ took all lands to the east of the demarcation point and ______ took all the lands to the west

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Portugal, Spain

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Structural adjustment policies in Middle/South American in the 1980s were based on all of following concepts except:

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democratization

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which of the following is a climatic effect in South American associated with El Nino

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Rain along the west coast

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All of the following are synonyms for favela except

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ghetto

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The term used after World War II to describe the long, fortified border zone between Western Europe and Eastern Europe

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The Iron curtain

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Most of the countries in Latin America rely heavily on

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primary economic activity

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The ____ is an EU program that places tariffs on imported agricultural goods and gives subsidies to farmers

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Common Agricultural program

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What is the name of the regional free trade alliance between the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay

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Mercusor

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The EU term for social welfare is

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Social protection

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what statement best reflects the European standard of acceptance for immigrants

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The need for assimilation being replaced by the need for acculutration

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True or false: The hegemony of the British is defined as a regulation of economic activities in the colonies, then, centered on the accumulation of wealth for the European powers, at the colonies expense

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False

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After defeating Germany in 1945, it was divided and the USA, France and the British together created the German Democratic Republic while the Soviet occupied the German Federal Republic (FRG)

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False

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The EU27 depend on nuclear power for 76% of their total needs

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false

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A plantation is the term for a large farm growing a single cash crop

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true

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Roman languages, Germanic languages, and Slavic languages, all account for 50% of Indo-European speech group

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false

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Brussels, capital of Luxemburg is also the center of European Union

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False

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Liberation Theology

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Catholic activists teaching the redistribution of wealth

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Briefly explain the term Mercantilism and who the system has benefited the most

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A strategy used to increase a country's power and wealth by acquiring colonies and managing all aspects of their production, transportation, and trade. The country who managed the colony benfited the most

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Briefly explain the term "syncretic religions"

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the blending of different religions.

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Explain the EPZ era

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competition from china with cheap labor

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