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Final Exam ( First quiz to Sub Africa) Flashcards

1
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Famous places in Italy that aren’t Rome

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Venice, Florence, and Millan

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An island shared by Greeks and Turks

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Cyprus

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Violent European conflict in the 1990s and today

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The Yugoslav War

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4
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Major parts of the United Kingdom

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Scotland, Wales, Britan, North Irleandss

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Major EU non-members

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Serbia and India

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Countries that speak German

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German, Serbia, Denmark

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The least democratic country in Europe

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Serbia

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8
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Interesting facts about Gibraltar

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Monkeys

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Nordic countries

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Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland.

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Non nordic countries

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Estonia

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11
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Russia’s President

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Valdmir Putin

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12
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Russia’s most important export

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Petrol/Gas

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13
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Russia’s most important river

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Volga River

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14
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Russian leaders before and during the Soviet era

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Czarist monarchy (<1917)
 Lenin
 Stalin
 Krushchev
 Brezhnev
 Andropov, Chernenko
 Gorbachev

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15
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Lake Baikal

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Oldest, Deepsest Freshwater Lake

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16
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Silicon Valley

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Leading technology and innovation. Urban areas

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17
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Canada’s most important river

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St.Lawerence River

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18
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Major US agricultural exports

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Corn and Soybeans

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19
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Important Canadian cities

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Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottwa

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20
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Wealth and poverty in the US

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Manufacturing and Construnction. Transport and services.

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21
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North American oil reserves

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Texas: 3.1 billion barrels
New Mexico: 1.4 billion barrels
North Dakota: 0.8 billion barrels

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22
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Primary economic sectors

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Raw Materials

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23
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secondary economic sectors

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Manufacturing and Construction

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24
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tertiary economic sectors

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Services and IT

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25
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Haiti’s troubles

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  • Third largest recipent of US Aid
  • Large UN Troops Presence
  • 2010 Hatian Earthquake Killed 200,000-300,000 people. Worst earthquake byfar.
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26
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Greater Antilles

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Cuba,Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico

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27
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Lesser Antilles

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U.S Virgin Islands

28
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Mayans

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  • Strech Back to 2000 B.C.E
    -Classic Period of 200-900 AD
    -Honduras, Guatemala, Belize;Yucatan peninsula
    -six million modern Mayan speakers
29
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Aztecs

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  • Conquered by Spanish (Cortez)
    in 1519
  • Tenochtitlan (+100,000 people)
    becomes Mexico City
  • Modern day Nahuatl languages (1.5
    million speakers
30
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Incas

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-Located across the Andes mountain
valleys (centered in Peru)
- 20 million subjects at its zenith
- A highly centralized state – defeated
by Pizarro and his 183 men (1533)

31
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Mexico

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122 Million People (11th most in world)
11th biggest Economy in the World
15% Indigenous Population

32
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Cuba’s communist leaders

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Fidel Castro died in 2016, Raoul Castro is retired and Now leader Miguel Diaz-Canal.

33
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The target of a 1983 US invasion

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Invasion of Gernada

34
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Colombia’s promise and problems

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Biodiversity
- Violence
- Cociane
- Democracy

35
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well, mostly problems

Venezuela’s

A

Hugo Chavez Died in 2013
Nicolas Maduro
Choas and oil

36
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Major Brazilian cities

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Sao Paulo, Rio di Janerio, and Brasllia

37
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Guyanna

Places in Middle and South America that don’t speak Spanish

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Guyanna Speaks English

38
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Suriname

Places in Middle and South America that don’t speak Spanish

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suriname speaks Dutch

39
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French Guiana

Places in Middle and South America that don’t speak Spanish

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French Guiana Speaks French

40
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The George Washington of South America

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Simon Bolivar

41
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The part of South America that’s in the European Union

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Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and parts of Brazil.

42
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OPEC and South America

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OPEC stands for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
-Venezula
- Brazil

43
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Africa’s largest economies

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Nigeria, South Africa, and Egypt

44
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The deadliest place on earth since 2000

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South America

45
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How Africans make a living

46
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Disease and its effects

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  • Aids
  • Pneumonia
  • Tuberculosis
  • Malaria
  • Measles
  • Cholera
47
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Diamonds

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Cullian 3,106 Metric Carats in South America

48
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African country with deep historic ties to the US

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Liberia, Ethopia,Morroco,Egpyt

49
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Boko Haram

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Nigeria and The deadliest part of isis taht is still exist.

50
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Shariah Law

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A body of law in islamic religon

51
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The newest country in the world

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The republic of South Sudan

52
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Tanzania’s lingua franca

53
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The most famous South African

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Nelson Mandela

54
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Palestinian/Israeli occupied territories

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Six-day War of 1967, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including East Jerausluem

55
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Arab-Israel conflict, in general

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The birth of Israel in 1948, the attack on Palestinian

56
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Islam’s origins and holy cities

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Mecca and Medina, the wall strip. Muhhamad, the Quran holy book, 85% of Muslims are sunni, Salafism/Wahhabism- fundamentalist

57
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North Africa’s biggest cultural minority

58
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Major divisions in Islam – especially between Sunnis and Shi’ites

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The dominat religon, sunnis have a less elaborate religous hierachry than shiites. Salafism officla relion in saudi arabi

59
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Countries ISIS partially conquered

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Third of syria, 40% of Iraq

60
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The most famous “empire” states

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Iran and Turkey

61
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Turkey and Mustafa Kemal

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Mustafa Kemal is the father of modern Turkey in 1923, Westernized in 1920, the Kurdish population of 14 million.

62
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Concerns about Iran

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Nuclear weapons in 2016

63
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Cultural differences between Iran and its neighbors

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Speak Farsi, predominantly Shi’ite

64
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The Arab Spring

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Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya Revolution/Catastrophe violent reaction against their dictators in 2011

65
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Civil wars in Syria, Libya, and Yemen

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civil war from overthrowing dictators

66
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Arab immigration to the US

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1966-1990 400,000

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