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Centrifugal Forces
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Tears the nation state apart
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Centripetal Forces
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Forces that keep the nation state unified
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Microstate
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Less than 1,000 square miles Ex. Luxumbourg
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Supernationalism
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where a nation gives up some of its sovereignty in order to gain aspects needed for the state above the nation. Ex. European Nation
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European Nation
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unified monetary body that tries to balance the needs of its 28 members who are independent fiscal and political entities
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Nation State
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political organization that share the same history, traditions, or language
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NATO
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intergovernmental military alliance
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India European Language
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1.Germanic Language-Gothic 2.Romance Language-Latin 3.Slavic Language-Russian/Polish
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Cyrillic
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Greek/Latin Alphabet
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Devolutionary
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the transfer of power to a lower level
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Celtic
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Dying language. Breton Peninsula, Britlany, Wales
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Lisbon
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Capital, Largest City and has a huge deep water harbor in Portugal
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Guadalquivir River
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The main river for irrigated agriculture in Andalusia, Spain
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Another name for the Hungarians and their unique language is
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Magyars
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Antwerp
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Main port of Belgium
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Po River
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Northern Italy's leading manufacturing region of the mediterranean
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Lorraine and the city of Nancy is a major iron and steel center of
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France
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The South Wales Coal Field and Industrial Region
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Cardiff
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Along the mediterranean coast of France, region east of the rhone river delta, rivera is located
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Provence
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Silesia was a major coal field and industrial district of Germany before WWII but today it is the major industrial region of
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Poland
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The Southern German State of Bavaria is famous for the production of beer, BMW automobiles, and the Oktoberfest
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Munich
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Most important German port city, located at the mouth of the Elbe River, Major Industrial center in northern Germany
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Hamburg
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The Scottish city that has become prosperous by developing its port facilities as the service center for the North Sea Oil and Gas fields
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Aberdeen
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The Pennine Mountains have coal beds lying along their eastern and western sides that have developed as major industrial areas
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England
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The narrow corridor leading from northern France to the Mediterranean Sea between the Alps on the east and the Massif Central Uplands on the West is occupied by
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Rhone
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Hilly Region of Southern Belgium, Germans surprised and sent tanks through the rough hills
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Ardennes
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Azores Islands(chain of islands located west of Europe), strategic possession of
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Portugal
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The Vistula River is the major river flowing through
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Poland
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The Roma people are a much-persecuted minority group scattered throughout Eastern Europe. Another name for the Roma people is
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Gypsies
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The Zudier Zee Project(diking off a portion of the North Sea and turning it into dry land for farming. project still underway in
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The Netherlands
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Four Motors of Europe
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Lombardy- (Italy) Rhone- (Alps, France) Baden-(Germany) Catalonia- (Spain)
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Eire is the Gaelic (Celtic) name for
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Ireland
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The native language of the people of Corsica is Italian, but Corsica is part of
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France
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Romance Languages
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French Italian and Romanian
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a major port city for Germany along Baltic Sea Coast
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Munich
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Yugoslavia has broken into
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Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia,macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia
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Region of France is a German-Speaking area with Strasbourg as its main city
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Alsace
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Northern Italy's Major Port city
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Genoa
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The Basque people are fighting to separate from which nation and establish their own country
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Spain
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Mountain Range that extends down the center of the Italian Peninsula from the Alps to the "Toe"
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Appennine Mountains
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The Bosniaks who were murdered by the Serbians during the fighting in the 1990s at the time of the break up of Yugoslavia were
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Muslims
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Newcastle is the main manufacturing city of which rustbelt industrial center in the united kingdom
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Teeside-Tyneside
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Rock of Gibraltar belongs to
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Spain
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Czech Republics Prague is located in the province of
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Bohemia
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Political Components of the United Kingdom
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Wales, Scotland, and England
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Sarajevo is the city where an assassination led to the start of WWII; Capital and largest city of
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Scotland's Greatest industrial and port city (clydeside)
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Glasgow
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Agricultural Region in Serbia claimed by Hungarians
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Vojvodina
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Kosovo is former province of Serbia that has separated and declared independence because of most people being not Serbian but
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Albanian
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Great Britain's greatest industrial district for the production of iron, steel, and automobiles. The midlands or "Black Country"
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Birmingham
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Europe's biggest and busiest port, Located in the delta of the rhine river
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Rotterdam
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The Iberian Peninsula is composed of which two nations
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Spain and Portugal
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Vienna Capital of
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Austria
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The Rhineland(Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bonn) located in
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Germany
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Interior Plateau of Spain is called
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Meseta
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Main industrial district of Communist East Germany before reunification with the west
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Saxon Triangle
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Clydeside Industrial District along the Clyde River is in
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Glasgow
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The Merseyside Industrial District is in what major port and industrial city
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Liverpool
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Another name for the UK's Northern Ireland
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Ulster
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Holland is a province that is most densely settled and economically productive region of
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Netherlands
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The current boundary of Germany and Poland has shifted westward since 1945 to which rivers
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Oder-Neisse Rivers
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1840 The Potato Blight killed over one million people and forced 2 million to emigrate from which from
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Ireland
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Katowice is major center of heavy industry in
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Poland
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Germany's biggest and best coal field and its greatest center of heavy industrial development is
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Ruhr Coalfield
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The Dayton accords ended the fighting in which nation and partitioned it between the major ethnic
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Bosnia
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The Capital and Largest city of the Ukraine is located on a great river in the northern part of the country in the steppe grasslands and the city of
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Kiev
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The Capital and Primate city of Hungary is located on the Danube River and is
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Budapest
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The Donbas Coalfield and Industrial Region is one of the great manufacturing areas of the world and located in
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Ukraine
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The Dnieper River divides one of the following nations into two nations into two sections that are different in religion, economic development, language, and settlement patterns
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Ukraine
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Bordeaux is major Atlantic port and the largest city in the French wine-growing region
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Aquitaine
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Which Nation used Cuestas(Ridges) to protect their core area and capital city from the east?
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France
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The Brenner Pass(best pass through the alps) is on the border between which two nations in the region called the south tyrol
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Italy and Austria
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Flemish
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Majority of the population of Belgium who speak a dialect of Dutch
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Celtic Tiger
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Irelands Booming high-tech Economy of the 1990's provided many jobs and prosperity and was called this
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Randstand
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Urban core of the Netherlands, which is a ring- shaped area, including Amsterdam, the Hague, other cities
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Moravian Gate
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The lowland corridor that cuts through the Carapathian
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Polders
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Land that is below sea level that is reclaimed from the sea by the construction of dikes
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South Tyrol
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The region of Northern Italy That has majority of German Speaking who want to secede from Italy and rejoin Austria
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Wallons
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The French speaking minority population of Belgium
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Green Line
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The boundary that separates the turkish Northern part of cyprus from the greek southern part of Cyprus
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Mezzogiorno
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the Southern part of Italy that is impoverished, has high unemployment. Dominated by the mafia
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Euro
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The currency of the European Union
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Limon
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The French name for the fertile loess soil found on the Paris Basin of Northern France
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Padania
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Because North Italians are tired of their tax money being used to improve the economy of the poor and backward south, they have formed a political party that advocates independence for the prosperous north and they have a name for their new country, which is
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Irredentism
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An area of land that is considered "unredeemed land" by a nation because this land is part of a neighboring nation
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Anschluss
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The unification of Austria with Germany
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Transylvania
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A region of devolutionary pressures in Romania where 1.8 million Hungarians live adjacent to the Hungarian Border
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Catalonia
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The area of northeast Spain focused on the city of Barcelona, that is Spain's most highly industrialized and prosperous area; one of the four motors
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Yugoslavia
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The former nation whose name meant "Land of the South Slaves"
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Enosis
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The plan by Greek Cypriots to join Cyprus with the Greek mainland
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Ethnic Cleansing
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Actions that a government can use to unify different groups and hold a nation state together
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3 Indo-European Languages
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Slavic Language, Romance Language, Germanic Language
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4 Politcal Subdivisions of the UK
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England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
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7 Nations Yugoslavia Broke into
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Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia
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3 Ethnic groups that compose the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats
