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Name the 6 countries in Inland Europe |
-belarus -moldova -hungary -ukraine -czech republic -slovakia |
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What group founded czech republic and slovakia? |
slavs |
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Who formed Czechoslovakia? |
WW1 allies |
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When did Czechoslovakia split? |
1993 |
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What type of influence do they have? |
western influence |
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what is the capital of Czech Republic? |
Prague |
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What is the name of the non-violent protest that helped stop the 41 year rule of communism in 1989? |
The Velvet Revolution |
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Who invaded Hungary in the 900's? |
The Magyars |
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What language is based on the Margarin language? |
The Hungarian Language |
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In Hungary who do the people still refer to themselves of? |
The Magyars |
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Who settles in Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus? |
Slavs and then other groups |
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Who settled in Kiev, Ukraine in the 800's and created an empire? |
Rus |
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In the 1700's what country did the Kiev Empire join? |
Russia |
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In the 1920s what happened with Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine? |
the made the Soviet Republic |
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In 1991 what happened to Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine? |
they became independent |
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What is Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraines's main influence from? |
Russia |
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Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, and The Czech Republic have what type of government? |
Republic |
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What country claims to be a republic when they are really a dictatorship? |
belarus |
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What is the capital of Ukraine? |
Kiev |
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What is the Capital of Moldova? |
Chisinau |
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what is the capital of slovakia? |
bratislava |
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What is the capital hungary |
budapest |
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What is the capital of belarus? |
minsk |
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Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine are part of what? |
The CIS aka the Commonwealth Independent States |
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Czech Republic, slovakia, Hungary are part of what? |
Da EU |
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What is the crisis in Ukraine? |
Russia wants to take Crimeria Peninsula but Ukraine doesn't want that to happen |
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Who founded colonies on the northern black sea coast? |
Ancient Greeks |
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Who conquered after Ancient Greeks on the northern black sea coast? |
The Romans |
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When did the Roman Empire divide into western and eastern Rome? |
AD 300s |
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What Peninsula became part of the Byzantine Empire? |
Balkan Peninsula |
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When the Byzantines were still in power what religion did the people have? |
Orthodox Christian |
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After 1000 years of the Byzantine rules who conquered? |
the Muslim Ottoman Turks |
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When the ottomans ruled wha happened? |
most balkans became muslims |
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when did the region rise up and drive the ottomans out? |
1800s
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what started WW1 |
trouble between the balkan kingdoms and their neighbors |
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In the late 1800's who took over part of the balkan peninsula? |
Austro-Hungarian |
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what sparked WW1 |
a man shot the heir of the austro hungarians |
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Describe Yugoslavia |
combivement of independent countries under one government |
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why did Yugoslavia break up in the 1990s |
conflict from ethnic and religious groups |
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What is the Balkans main religion? |
Christian |
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What branch of christianity do the balkans mainly fall under? |
the orthodox church |
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what religion is in the western part of the balkan countries? |
roman catholic |
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many countries have what kind of community? |
protestant |
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what do slavic languages refer to? |
russian |
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In Romania languages developed from what? |
latin |
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some balkans speak what? |
germanic |
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what are the countries of balkan? |
Albania Macedonia Slovenia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia and Montenegro Romania Bulgaria |
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Which Balkan country is the poorest? |
Albania |
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What country was able to peacefully break from Yugoslavia? |
Macedonia |
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What country was the first to join the EU? |
Slovenia |
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What country struggled with fighting between ethnic croats and serbs after breaking from Yugoslavia? |
Croatia |
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What country is at peace but working to rebuild their economy after the years of religious and ethnic violence? |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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What country has seen fighting among ethnic groups? |
Serbia and Montenegro |
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What country is the largest of the balkan states and is rebuilding from the years of bad government? |
romania |
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What country is working to develop a capitalist economy? |
Bulgaria |
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The Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary are successful because of what? |
-thriving industrial centers -productive farmlands |
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The Balkan countries were once ruled by what type of government? |
Communist |
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Out of all the areas in the balkan peninsula how would it be ranked? |
poorest |
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What is Ethnic Cleansing? |
an effort to remove all members of a group from a country that ends up in great violence |
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In 1995 the world sent troops to which countries to stop the fighting? |
Bosnia and Herzegovinia |
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Who was the leader of Serbia until 2001 and what did he do? |
leader: Slobodan Milosevic -charged with war crimes and genocide -put on trial in the Hague in 2002 -died in prison in 2006 |
