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55 Cards in this Set
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Rio de la Plate
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Where three rivers meet and flow in to the Atlantic Ocean
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The grasslands in Argentina are called...
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The Pampas
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What was an immediate impact of The Columbian Exchange in Latin America
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European colonists brought vast amounts of wealth
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What was the motivation behind the Columbian Exchange?
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Europeans fled religious persecution, but still exchanged goods with family in Europe
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Who was Simon Bolivar
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Venezuelan revolutionary leader
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Where do most indigenous groups of Latin America live in...
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The Amazon River Valley
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Largest city of the Mayan Empire
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Tikal
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The Inca's written language consists of...
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Glyphs
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What civilization had an extensive use of human sacrifice?
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Aztec
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What wasn't brought to Latin America from Europe?
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Maize
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Where are the Meseta Highlands located?
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Spain
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What is another name for the United Kingdom?
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Britain
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First countries to declare independence from Yugoslavia were...
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Slovenia and Croatia
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Where was the Yugoslavia civil war conflict
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Bosnia
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What is not needed for a country to become industrialized?
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wealthy and well-educated people
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Humanists
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Supporters to the IRA and religious freedom in Northern Ireland
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What was the attitude that emerged during the Renaissance?
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increased appreciation for the talents and worth of the individual person
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What is not a characteristic of the European Parliament?
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The organization is made up of 344 elected members from each member country
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What river is part of the Mississippi and Ohio River system?
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Missouri River
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Ottawa is the capitol of what province?
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Newfoundland
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What is not shared by the US and Canada
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The great Basin
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The Dust Bowl
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Settlers broke up sod to grow crops
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Urbanization
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movement of people from rural areas to cities
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Free and Secure Trade Act
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complete reliable records for all cargo
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Old Immigrants
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They were not poor
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United States in the 1800's
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Huge increase in immigration which led to discrimination
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Oil production is located around...
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Caspian Sea
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Chernozem
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permanently frozen soil; Russia Far East
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Great Schism was what two religions?
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Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
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What natural resource does Dagestan have?
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Oil
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Who conquered the Incas?
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Pizzaro
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The leader of Serbia was...?
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Slobodan Milosevic
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What country has 2/3 of Latin America's oil?
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Venezuela
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Continentality
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extreme variation in temperature and very little precipitation
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After 9/11 what was the government attacked with
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anthrax
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Mestizo
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mixture of European and Latin America
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Province with oil reserves
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Alberta
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Rio de Plata
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where three rivers meet and flow into the Atlantic ocean
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Aztec Capitol
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Tenochtitlan
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NAFTA
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North American Free Trade Association
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Lake Baikal
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holds 20% of the worlds fresh water
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What two countries declared independence from Yugoslavia first
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Croatia and Slovenia
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Thousands of dikes were built where to prevent flooding?
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Netherlands
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Edict of Worms
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excommunicated Martin Luther
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how long did the Romanov rule?
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300 years
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Ural Mountains
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Divide Europe Russia and Asia Russia
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Conquistadors are from what country?
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Spain
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Sirroccos
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winds that blow from Africa
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Appalachian mountains
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oldest mountains in the US
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Louisiana Purchase
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doubled the size of the US in 1803
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Who was in charge when the SU collapsed?
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Gorbachev
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Last Czar of Russia
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Nicholas II
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Who conquered the Aztec
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Cortez
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What two countries of Yugoslavia were primarily Muslim?
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Bosnia and Kosovo
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People that live in Chechnya practice what religion?
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Islam
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