ISS 315 Exam #3 – Flashcards
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The river that the unglaciated part of the European lowland in the south from the legated plains in the north?
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Rhine River
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What damaged half of the forests of Poland and three-quarters of the forests of the Czech Republic
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Acid Rain
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In which region of Europe are environmental conditions the worst?
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Eastern Europe
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What are the current impacts of climate change in Europe?
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Global warming, rising sea levels because of melting glaciers, sparse snow cover in Scandinavia.
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Which non-European country plated a major role in the economy of the countries of Eastern Europe?
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Soviet Union
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Which country of Europe is primarily located on the European Lowland?
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Netherlands
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??Which of following factors explain the diversity of Europe?
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Europe goes from Arctic to the Mederteranian and therefore has wide climate, vegetation, , and human activity
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Pyrennees
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Forms the political boundary between Spain and France- Home of the the Basque people
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Which part of Europe is the region's focus of agriculture, large cities, and major industrial activities?
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North European lowlands
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Where do most immigrants to France come from?
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Former colonies in both Northern and Subsaharan Africa
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Approximate population of Europe?
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531 million people
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Balkanization (devolution)
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The breakup of a state into smaller hostile units (balkanization- Yugoslavia, devolution- other areas of Europe)
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Irredentism
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State policies designed to reclaim lost territory, support of similar people in one country to be apart of another (Moldova ; Romania, Albania ; Kosova, Russia ; East Ukraine)
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Hegemony
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Political dominance of one country over another (Russia ; Bulgaria)
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Historical eras are represented in European city landscapes?
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Midevil (900-1500 AD), Renaissance- baroque (1500-1800), Industrial (1800- present)
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Germanic Languages (END DIGS)
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English, Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, ice landic, German, Swedish,
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Country in Europe with the largest population
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Germany (81.6 million)
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Country of Europe with the largest Muslim migrant population
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France 4.5 million
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European Romance language that contains many slavic words
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Romanian
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Hanseatic League
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A commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market town (c. 1400- 1800s) on Northern European Coast
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??Holly Roman Empire
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Roman Catholic- Latin Alphabet Eastern Orthodox- Cyrillic Alphabet
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Why did immigration to Western Europe increase in the 1990s?
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The fall of the soviet border controls end of Cold war, Russians were coming back after Russification policy stopped
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Countries that are NOT a member of the European Union?
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Norway Iceland Switzerland Turkey
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WW2 Allies
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Britain, France, USSR, US
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Secularization
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Move form traditional organized religion toward irreligious values and secular institutions
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How far west in Europe did the Ottoman Empire expand?
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15 degrees East- longitudinal, in Croatia
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Size, in area, of Europe as compared to U.S.
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2/3 size
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The geopolitical unit invented in Europe
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European Economic Community (ECE)
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Climate type and regions in Europe
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Mostly C- in large areas moderated by atlantic ocean B- in the south D- in the North and East
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Major determinant of the early industrial regions of Europe
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Coal, steam, iron steel, London as important port and financial center.
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Cold War
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US vs. Soviet Union (1946-1991) mostly over communism vs capitalism
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What is the natural growth rate of the population of Europe?
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Very low, birthrates are lower than death rates
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Economic cooperation in Western Europe at the end of WW2 centered on what commodity?
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coal and steal, Europe has been inundated with North American culture
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What kind of organization is the European Union
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A political and economic union
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Where are protestants the dominant religion in Europe?
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Northern Europe
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NATO
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North Atlantic Trade Organization- Bombed burgled to force Siberia to accept agreement to end tension
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Iron Curtain
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metaphorical name given to the line between west Europe and the soviet block during cold war
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Impact from global warming in the Russian Domain
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may improve Russia's agriculture
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Location of highest population densities in Russian Doman
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South Eastern part of the region: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Transcaucasus
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Body of water in Russian Domain that is the world's largest reserve of freshwater
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Lake Baikal
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What effects might Russia see from climate change?
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longer growing season, more fertile land, and more water in rivers means better transportation
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Where in the Russia Domain is agricultural most productive
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Ukraine: former step lands in the west
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What makes Russia distinctive?
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Largest country on earth (in land area) and spans over nine time zones
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Caucasus Mountains
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Between the lack and Caspian Seas, Russia's southern boundary
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??Russianfication before and after the breakup of the Soviet Union
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=placing russians in places to moe along the communism cause Post: soviet union this process reserved
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, what group of people would likely to emigrate from the Russian Doman?
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Jews
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Population of the Russian Domain?
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Over 200 million
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Why does European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia?
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Warmer and can grow more food
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??Siberia
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Thousands of miles, cold climate
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The country in the Russian Domain with the largest population
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Russia
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What is the dominate climate type in the Russian Domain?
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D: High latitude continental
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Pollution in Lake Baikal
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Industrial waste, raw sewage, oil spills, pulp, and paper factories
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Capital of Russia just prior to 1917?
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St. Persburg until the Russian Empire
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Primary characteristics of high-latitude continental climate
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Seasonal temperature extremes and short growing seasons
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The original founders of Russia
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Salvic people
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by the early 1900s, high culture citizens of Russian Emulated another world region. Which region?
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Strong traditions influenced by Western Europe
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Where are the highest population densities in the Russian Domain?
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Russia Ukraine Belarus Transcaucasus
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Dachas
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Country houses only avaliable to the elite
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Boundary between Europe and Asia and Eurasian continent
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Ural mountains, caspian sea, caucasus mountains
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Why did the Russian military invade Chechnya in 1994?
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Has metal and oil
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??Trans-Sibearn Railroad
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Starts in Moscow and ends in vladivostok connects Moscow to the far east
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Founder of the Soviet Union
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Lenin, Vladimir
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What was social realism of the Soviet Era in the Russian Domain?
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a style devoted to the realistic devoted to the realistic deception of workers harnessing the forces of nature or a struggling against capitalism.
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Which country invaded the country Georgia in 2008?
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Russia
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Stalin
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Former general security of the central committee of the communist
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What is the primary destination for Russian petroleum products?
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Western Europe
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Why is the environment in Central Asia relatively clean?
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Relative low population and low economic development
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Why is the Aral Sea shrinking?
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Use of water from rivers feeding the sea for irrigation part of soviet program (1950s)
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Most of the Kazakhstan's oil reserves are found near which physical feature of Central Asia
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Kashagan fields in the NorthEastern Caspian Sea
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What development eld to the emergence of nomadic pastoralism in Central Asia?
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Domestication of horses
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Which Central Asian lake is the largest in the world?
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Caspian Sea
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Where do most Central Asian people live?
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where the highlands meet the plains
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What is the name of the collapsible, felt-covered structures that mongolians live in?
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Yurt (eng), Ger (mong)
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What group is moving to Tibet sense the 1960
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Han Chinese
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What was the most common foreign language of the countries of Central Asain in the 1970s?
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Russian
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What do most climate change experts predict will happen to Central Asia as climate change continues?
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Melting of glaciers and reduced river flow
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What livilihood is "the only feasible way of life on the Tibetan plateau" according the the authors of your textbook?
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Nomadic Tibetan Patoralists
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What Religion of Uyghur people of western China?
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Muslim, majority sunnis
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Where do the majority of people in Uzbekistan reside?
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Uneven, centering on Oases
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Central Asian country with both US and Russia had military bases
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Kyrgyzastan
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In Central Asia just before the 1700s what military developments changed the balance of power?
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Gunpowder, effective hand weapons, and horses
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Which countries are try to influence Central Asia
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China Japan Russia Europe US
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Recent migration of people out of Cental Asia, who are these migrants, and why are they leaving?
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Russian, Russicication is over so they can return to their home
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To which language is Tajik most closley related?
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Persian
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Which central Asian has taken the lead on restoration of the Aral Sea?
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Kazakhstan
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which of the following countries of Central Asain lies farthest South?
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Afghanistan
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Central Asia's promienence as a region has increase since the 1990s due to what?
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establishment of contemporary arts
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which country of Central Asia has the lowest popoulation density in the region?
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Kazashstan
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In the Tarim Basin, where do most of the people reside?
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In the foothills of the mountains along the basin edge
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What is the common language spoken by most people in Central Asia?
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Russian
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Which of the following descriptions does not apply to central Asia?
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Dense population
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The Taliban was founded by
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Young Muslim students
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Countries that are member of the Shanghai cooperation organization?
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Ubekistan Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Kazashstan China Russia
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The recently complete Qinghai- Tibet Railway connects what city to he rest of China
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Lhasa Tibet to Xining Quihghai Province
