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what land form acts as a natural boundry between European Russia and Asian Russia? on witch side has more population |
ural mountions right side |
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where did the term "middle east" come from? |
europeans who stopped 1/2 way to asia |
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what is the main ethnic group and languge in south west asia |
ethnic group: arabs languge: babylonian |
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what 3 religions originated in South west asia? and city do all 3 consider a holy cite? |
Judaism, Christianity, islam Jeruslem |
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what are some dietary restrictions for judaism and islam? |
>fasting >no meat |
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what are the two most important natural resources in south west asia? whitch one is plentiful? witch one is imported from saudi arabia? |
>natural gas, oil > natural gas > oil |
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what are some charastics of a devolped counrty |
>life expetancy > life style market econmoy >groth/ death rate > population |
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define democracy. |
stem of GOV. by the whole pooulation |
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define theocracy. |
stem of GOV. in witch priests rule in the home oh god or a god |
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what is sahle and where is it located ? |
ecoclimate and biogeographic zone of transition below the sahara desert |
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aparthied: in witch country did it happen? what is it? when did it end? |
>south america >discrmination of race > 1948-1994 |
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explainn the locations of climate regions of the continent of africa |
tropical; rainforest savannah; distant wet & dry seasons desert; little rain fall wide diffrentces between day and night temp |