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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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