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Geography

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indo-european/west germanic   what group of languages did english come from  
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diffuse by migration and evolve by isolation   how do languages change  
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Phoenicians and greeks   alphabet derived from  
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Romance Branch Germanic Branch Slavic Branch Others (esp. Celtic)   Indo-European Languages  
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Hungarian Finnish Basque   Non-Indo-European Languages  
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Migrations of Angles, Jutes, and Saxons to Great Britain   caused different Germanic dialects to go to different parts of Great Britain  
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Angles (Angle-land)   England named after the  
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Latin   Roman languages came from  
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23, 40   Latin had ?? letters and ?? sounds  
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French orthography   Normans used what type of writing  
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great vowel shift   pronunciation of some vowels changed  
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William Caxton, English printer   selected standards based on London, chose some spellings over others  
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Noah Webster’s American dictionary   Attempts at spelling reform  
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Europe   Less than 4% of the world’s land area  
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Europe   About 10-12% of the world’s population  
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Nationalism and Separatism   National (cultural) identity and Desire to have more political power or separate and form own country  
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European Union   established after World War II, desire to prevent a third world war  
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28   Union has ?? members  
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Economic and monetary union – Euro currency: € Common foreign and security policy Common policy on justice, border control, asylum, immigration, customs, police Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)   4 Pillars (goals) of the Union and Supranationalism  
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Turkey   not allowed to join the union  
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switzerland   doesn't want to join the union  
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Complex street patterns Public squares and pedestrian spaces High density housing Low skylines Lively downtowns Scars of war Palaces, castles, cathedrals Public housing   European cities  
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Spain and Portugal   most Latin American immigrants from  
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Latin america   Plantation and ranch settlements Mining Oil producers  
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maquiladoras   factories built outside the US, traded goods not taxed  
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Mexico City   capital of Mexico  
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Guatemala   Today one of the poorest countries in Latin America  
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Guatemala City   capital of Guatemala  
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Argentina   One of world’s wealthiest countries in early 1900s Has suffered economic decline since 1945  
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Buenos Aires   capital of Argentina  
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Chile   Now one of Latin America’s richest countries  
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Santiago de Chile   capital of Chile  
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Lima   capital of Peru  
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Ivan the Great   Ivan III  
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Ivan the Terrible   Ivan IV  
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Sophia, niece of last Byzantine Emperor   Ivan III married  
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Czar of all Russia   Ivan IV takes title of  
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caesar   "czar" comes from the word  
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Peter the Great (Peter I)   Romanov dynasty comes to power under the rule of  
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Peter I   founded new capital of st. petersburg  
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Nicholas II   last czar of russia  
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Russian Revolution   Growing distrust of, lack of faith in, and anger towards the Czarist regime began the  
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Lenin   Bolsheviks led by  
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Communist Party   ideology based on Marxism and rule by the workers (anti-capitalist)  
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Communist Party   Bolsheviks later become  
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Communist Party   basis for a one-party state without political opposition  
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"Soviet” means “council”   the country was supposed to be governed by councils of workers  
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state-building, nation-building, economic development, foreign relations   problems of the soviet union  
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Non-aggression pact with Germany signed in 1939 Germans break the pact and invade USSR in 1941 World War II   Problems of Nazi expansion eastwards  
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Stalin-Trotsky   dispute regarding international revolution  
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“Cold War”   Policy of peaceful coexistence with West  
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Mikhail Gorbachev   Reform policies – eliminate corruption and inefficiency, destabilize fossilized bureaucracy  
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Inefficient command economy, backward technology, Failed attempt to create Soviet identity, environmental problems, Failure to recognize and react to a more interdependent world   what caused the collapse of the soviet union  
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