holly's w geo vocab terms for 9wks test
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| the middle east was the birthplace of what types of activities | irrigation, mathematics, farming techniques, alphabet system, city life, literacy
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| what does USSR stand for? | union of soviet socialist republics
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| how many tribal groups make up africa's culture? | 2000
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| the part of Russia located east of the Ural mts. is known as what? | siberia
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| who was the first leader of the soviet union? | Vladmir Lenin
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| the name of the Judaism god | adonai
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| the name of the christian god | yahweh
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| the name of the islamic god | allah
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| the ural mts. create a dividing line between which two countries? | europe and asia
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| what process is used in southwest asia in order to grow crops and what valuable resource? | irrigation; water
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| what were some of the effects thet colonialism had on africa? | separated friendly tribes, grouped enemies together, gave a few countries lots of resources while some didn't get any, border disputes, hutu and tutsi conflicts
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| what was the 6 day war? | when the israeli army captured Jerusalem from the jordanian army
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| the differences between a communist and capitalistic country? | communist-wealth shared equaly, government in control of everything; capitalist-people's rule on government and economy
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| genocide | mass killing of a certain type of people intentionally
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| caravan | groups of people that travel together for protection
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| dachas | a russian country home
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| guinea worm disease | disease transmitted by drinking contaminated water, parasitic
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| malaria | disease transmitted by an infected mosquito bite
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| pharoahs | ancient egyptian monarchs
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| africaners | dutch, french, and german settlers and their descendants in south africa
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| tsetse fly | black african fly carrying a human disease called sleeping sickness
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| apartheid | segregation of black and white south africans by government policies
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| sanctions | penalties used to force countries to change policies
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| hieroglyphs | ancient egyptian pictures and symbols
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| yurts | round, movable, felt, mat, houses in central asia
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| gulag | network of prison labor camps in the soviet union
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| bolsheviks | a communist group that overthrew the government during the russian revolution in 1917
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| czars | title of the emperor of russia before the russian revolution
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| nomads | people who often move from place to place
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| serfs | poor farmers in russia bound to the land by their lords
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| eurasia | the landmass of europe and asia combined
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| taiga | a forest of mainly evergreen trees that covers half of russia
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| shatter belts | a zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts; located between major powers
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