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world geography term
holly's w geo vocab terms for 9wks test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the middle east was the birthplace of what types of activities | irrigation, mathematics, farming techniques, alphabet system, city life, literacy |
| what does USSR stand for? | union of soviet socialist republics |
| how many tribal groups make up africa's culture? | 2000 |
| the part of Russia located east of the Ural mts. is known as what? | siberia |
| who was the first leader of the soviet union? | Vladmir Lenin |
| the name of the Judaism god | adonai |
| the name of the christian god | yahweh |
| the name of the islamic god | allah |
| the ural mts. create a dividing line between which two countries? | europe and asia |
| what process is used in southwest asia in order to grow crops and what valuable resource? | irrigation; water |
| 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 |
| what was the 6 day war? | when the israeli army captured Jerusalem from the jordanian army |
| 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 |
| genocide | mass killing of a certain type of people intentionally |
| caravan | groups of people that travel together for protection |
| dachas | a russian country home |
| guinea worm disease | disease transmitted by drinking contaminated water, parasitic |
| malaria | disease transmitted by an infected mosquito bite |
| pharoahs | ancient egyptian monarchs |
| africaners | dutch, french, and german settlers and their descendants in south africa |
| tsetse fly | black african fly carrying a human disease called sleeping sickness |
| apartheid | segregation of black and white south africans by government policies |
| sanctions | penalties used to force countries to change policies |
| hieroglyphs | ancient egyptian pictures and symbols |
| yurts | round, movable, felt, mat, houses in central asia |
| gulag | network of prison labor camps in the soviet union |
| bolsheviks | a communist group that overthrew the government during the russian revolution in 1917 |
| czars | title of the emperor of russia before the russian revolution |
| nomads | people who often move from place to place |
| serfs | poor farmers in russia bound to the land by their lords |
| eurasia | the landmass of europe and asia combined |
| taiga | a forest of mainly evergreen trees that covers half of russia |
| shatter belts | a zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts; located between major powers |
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