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