World Geography: Eastern Europe – Flashcards
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Many cultures meet and cross there.
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Why is EE known as a cultural crossroads?
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The splitting of a region into mutually hostile units
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Balkanization
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A nation under the control of a stronger power.
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Satellite Nation
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When the government is in control of all economic conditions.
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Communism
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Making and selling something for yourself.
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Market Economy
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1990s.
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When did communism fail?
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Romanian.
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Latin language of EE
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Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand.
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Gavril Princip
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The Byzantine empire in Byzantium.
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Constantine founded.....
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Bosnia and Serbia.
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Two countries apart of Yugoslavia that went to war in the 1990s...
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The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
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What event sparked the start of WWI?
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The invasion of Poland by Germany.
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What sparked the start of WWII?
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Roman Empire.
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What was the great empire that ruled much of EE in the beginning of the 1st century AD?
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Ottoman and Byzantine.
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What two great empires followed the Roman Empire?
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Russia took some control and refused to withdraw from the eastern countries.
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How did EE countries come to be communist?
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Persecution of Jews.
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Anti-Semitism
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Orthodox Christianity.
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What religion was brought to EE by the Byzantine Empire?
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Islam.
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What religion was brought to EE by the Ottoman Empire?
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Soviet Union.
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What power controlled all of EE after WWII?
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The Holocaust.
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Why is Judaism now a minority religion of EE?
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Balkanization, Wars(after effects of WWII and Civil war in the 1990s), and the lingering effects of communism.
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Why has EE been slow to make economic progress?
