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32 Cards in this Set
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Gulf Stream/ N Atlantinc Drift
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often happens on continents west coasts (our Pacfic NW)
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Central upland
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coal and iron ore
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Western upland
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fjords- u shaped valley created of alpine glacation
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Polders
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reclaimed from the sea W Europe
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Greenbelt
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open space to control sprawl
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Irredentism
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basque, language unlike any other in Europe, possibly ancesters of prehistoriic Europeans
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Raol Wallenburg
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gave swedish people protective passoports, arrested as a spy
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Americanization
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France does not relish the cultural containment of US
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nation state
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a country whose population sunstantial cultural homogeneity and unity (Greece)
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isolated state
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a village surrounded by agricultural land which inturn is surrounded my impenetrable forest
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connectivity
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areal interdependence/functional specialuzation
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feudalsim
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minimum trade and connectivity
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Isolated states
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Vo thunen, first spatial theory, a village surrounded by agricultureal land which in turn is surrounded by and impenetrable forest, everything consumed ad to be prodcued in the isolated state,
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Von Thunen
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agricultural land use model focused on distance as transportaion costs, tranportaion costs will be directly proportional, most perishible crops those that had the highest transport costs were planted closest to the village, those crops that were the easiest to transport were farthest from the village
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Von thunene assumptions
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homogeneos climate, soils, plain cultural landscape, technology, land use zones in concentric rings intensice agricultural and dairying
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organic tehory of states, Ratzel
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Father of enviromental determinism, space was critical, states need more and more space
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Lebenraum
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contrasted theories of Ratzel and Von Thunen
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iron curtain
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seperated soviet sphere of influence from W Europe
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Buffer aone
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eastern europe protected USSR
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Croats
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Roman Catholic
During WWII saw germans as liberators Corats killed hundered of thousands of Serbs |
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Serbians
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Orthodox
Dominated yugoslavia |
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Muslims
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when area controlled by turks ancestors converted to Isalm
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Irrendentism
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when a state appeals to regionally concentrated minority in an sdjacent state
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complementarily
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one area has a surplus commodity demanded by a second area (Italy can grow citurs, germany coal)
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Transferability
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European places are close together so it is easier to transport a commodity between them
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intervening opportunities
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alternatives, restaurant stories
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devolution
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break up of nation state
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supranatioanlism
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nations surrender sovereignty to cooperate on economic or political issues
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Benelux
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1944 complementary, a common sustoms and tarriff structure of all 3
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Marchall Plan
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13 billion in us to rebuild eurpe after WWII, mandated european nations cooperate
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Eurioean coal and steel community
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Products could more between member nations without tariffs
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European unification
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common market, euro as a common currency
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