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World Geo. 9 weeks
Question | Answer |
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The middle East was the birthplace of what types of activites | created valueable farming techniques, reading && writing, city life (urban) |
What does USSR stand for? | Union Soviet Socialist Republics |
How man tribal goups make up Africa's culture? | 2,000 |
The part of Russia located East of the Ural Mts. is known as what? | Sibera |
Who waas the first leader of the Soviet Union? | Vlagmir Lenin |
Each of the following religions refer to their gods as..Judasim, Christianity, Islam | Judaism- Adonai, Christinity- Yahwea, Islam- Allah |
What is another term that refers to southwest Asia? | Middle East |
What is the main religion of Central Asia | Islam |
In what country is the cyrillic alphabet used? | Russia |
The ural Mts. creates the dividing line between which two continents? | Europe && Asia |
What process is used in Southwest Asia in order to grow crops, and what valuable reasource is used in this process? | Eirgation in order to grow crops; reasourse is water |
What were some of the effects that colonilism had on Africa? | Hotel Rwanda between the Hutu and Tutis. Ethinic Tention |
What was the 6-day war? | Isreali army captured the old city of Jerusalem, from the Jordanian army. |
what are the differences between a Communist country and a capitalistic country? | Communist- the government controls & runs everything Capitalistic- people makes decision, people run everything |
the intentional destruction of a people | genocide |
group of people traveling together for protection | caravan |
Russain country home | dachas |
parasite from contaminated water | Guninea Worm Desease |
transmitted by infected mosquito | Malaria |
ancient Egyptian monarchs | pharaohs |
dutch, french, and german settlers and their descendants in South African | africaners |
african fly carryinga human disease called sleeping sickness | tsetse fly |
official policies that forced black South Africans to live in separate aresa and use separate facilities from white South Africans | Aparthied |
spenalties intended to force a country to change its policies | sanctions |
pictures and symbols used in the ancient Egyptian writing system | hieroglyphs |
moveable, round houses of wool felt mats in Central Asia | yurts |
network of prison labor camps in the Soviet Union | gulag |
a communist group that overthrew the government during the Russian Revolution in 1917 | bolsheviks |
title of the emperor of russia before the Russian Revolution | czars |
people who move often from place to place | nomads |
poor peasant farmers in Russia who worked for lords and bound to the land | serfs |
the landmass of Europe and Asia combined | eurasia |
a forest mainly evergreen trees that covers half of Russia | Taiga |
a zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts, often located between major powers | shatter belt |