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Around what year did Muslim armies begin to conquer most of Southwest Asia?
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800 AD
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Sheik
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A religion leader of the highest rank and greatest respect
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Russia is nearly _________ the size of the United States
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1.8 times
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By what other name is the region of Southwest Asia sometimes referred?
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Middle East
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In many ways, this country is still a physical and cultural bridge between Asia and Europe?
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Turkey
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What are the four largest rivers in Russia?
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Ob River
Yenisei River Lena River Volga RIver |
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In what countries are most of the world's Shi'a Muslim concentrated?
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Iran, Southern Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon
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In what year did Israel become a state?
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1948
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Iran is the world's largest producer of what product?
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pistachios
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Other than the Dardanelles name of the strait that divides Turkey from Asia?
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Bosporus
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The word coffee has its origin in this country?
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Turkey
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This city used to be known as "Paris of the Middle"
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Beirut
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What are the two branches of Islam?
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Sunni and Shi'a
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What has been one of Iran's most prized products for centuries?
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Persian Rugs
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What illegal crop is grown by Afghan farmers?
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opium poppies
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What is the language that many Iranians speak?
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Farsi, an Indo-European language
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What organization was formed to control world oil prices?
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OPEC
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What is the world's deepest fresh water lake?
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Lake Baykal in Russia
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What leader followed Stalin in Russia?
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Russia's largest city is
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Moscow
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Russia's population, which is shrinking, is approximately
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150,000,000
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Russians are basically ______ and do not express much hope to a better life in the future.
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pessimists
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One of the most popular foods in Russia is
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borscht
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Slightly more than ___ of Russians live below the poverty line
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More than 1/3
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Forty percent of Germany is?
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Forests
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Germans rarely drink tap water but prefer _______, wine and mineral water.
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beer
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Germany's adult literacy rate is _____%
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99%
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In 2001, Germany ordered the killing of thousands of infected animals and limited the transport of livestock at risk from the disease __________.
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Mad Cow disease
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In area Germany is approximately the size of ___________
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Montana
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Most families live in ________. Single family homes are by no means rare just very __________.
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Apartments or condominiums
expensive |
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The Berlin Wall became a symbol of the ________ until late 1989.
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division of West and East
It now symbolizes freedom and unity |
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Alcoholism and drug abuse may affect as much as ____ percent of the population.
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42%
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Formal name for Russia is
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Commonwealth of Independent States
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The German currency is the
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Mark
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The German language does not have a word for
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new
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Largest city in Russia that is north of the Arctic Circle
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St. Persburg
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The population of Germany is ____million.
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81
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Europe's longest river is the
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Volga River
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The unemployment rate in Germany is currently around ____percent.
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10%
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This area in Russia gets temperatures below -40 degrees Fahrenheit
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Siberia
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The voting age in Germany is ____
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16
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What year did the Soviet Union collapse?
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1991
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While there is no speed limit on sections of the __________ there are strict limits on all other roads.
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Auto Bahn
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The former Soviet Union is organized into how many countries now?
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15 countries
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What is the Russian word for "openness"
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glasnost
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What is the Russian word for "restructuring"
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perestroika
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Who was the first democratically elected president of Russia?
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Boris Yeltsin
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A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in what part?
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Chechnya
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The voting age in Russia is ____
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18 years
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What is the name of the Russian currency
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ruble
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What drug is increasingly popular in the domestic market of Russia
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heroin
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Most of this country's foreign income comes from tobacco:
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Malawi
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Zaire's deposits of this mineral are among the largest in the world
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copper
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The languages of the Niger-Congo Family are also known as:
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Bantu
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What is considered to be the prosperous country in Central Africa?
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Gabon
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This city in South Africa is considered its commercial and financial capital.
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Johannesburg
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Guerrilla fighters were partly responsible for the independence of this country?
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Zimbabwe
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This volcanic island was once home to the now extinct dodo bird.
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Mauritius
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The land area of the United States fits into the land area of Africa:
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Sahara Desert
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Africa has ___ independent countries.
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more than 50
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This is one of the world's busiest waterways.
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Bosphorous
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Why is irrigation from the Nile of utmost importance to Egypt?
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Provides fertile land for agriculture
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The largest coffee crop in Africa comes from what country?
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Cote d'Ivoire
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Which of these countries was not founded as settlements for free slaves?
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Liberia and Sierra Leone were founded as settlements for freed slaves
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Which of these is one of the three primary belief systems found in West Africa?
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Three primary belief systems are Muslims, Christianity and Animism
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What are the reasons for Cameroon's relative prosperity?
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Because most people have small farms and receive government loans and up to date information on farming technology
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Why must all Central African countries import food despite the regions many fertile farmlands?
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Food production has not kept up with Central Africa's rising population.
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What small peninsula juts southward into the Black Sea
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Kamchatka Peninsula
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Africa is composed mostly of _______
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grassland
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Busiest port of Russia on the Black Sea is
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Port Novorossiysk
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This country was formerly known as the British colony of Northern Rhodesia.
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Zimbabwe
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What type of government did Angola choose after it became and independent nation in 1975?
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Communist
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What is the largest most populous country in Central Africa?
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Zaire
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For the past thirty years, this country has been a war zone.
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Angola
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What is considered to be the prosperous country in Central Africa?
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Gabon
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What are the major river systems of Southern Africa?
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Orange and Zambezi
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What two European powers vied for power in South Africa?
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The Boers and the British
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Busiest port of Russia on the Black Sea is
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Port Novorossiysk
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In what country are the people referred to as "white Russians?"
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Belarus
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What is the best known South Africa group that fought against racial discrimination?
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African National Congress
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What is the word for "Night of Broken Glass?"
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Kristallnacht
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What is the basis for South Africa's wealth?
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minerals
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What percentage of Africa's industrial firms are located in South Africa?
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more than 50%
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This country was once called German Southwest Africa?
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Namibia
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German conglomerate of eight chemical companies during WWII
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IG Farben
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Which of the Southern African countries is landlocked?
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Botswana
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This country is becoming one of Africa's success stories
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Botswana
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One of this nation's largest ports is called Beira.
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Mozambique
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Concentration camp in Upper Silesia, Poland
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Auchwitz-Birkenau
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Europeans own nearly half the land of this southern Africa country.
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South Africa
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The economy of this country revolves around tourism, fishing, farming and the export of perfumes, spices and copra.
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Comoros
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This nation is made up of 92 islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Seychelles
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The Sahara is ____ square miles in area.
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3,500,000 square miles
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Zaire would be closest to the:
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Equator
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Jews were starved, brutalized, and killed during these marches
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Death marches
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Africa's largest country in land area.
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Sudan
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Africa's most populous country
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Nigeria
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Fuehrer and Riech Chancellor of Germany
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Hitler
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Approximately how many ethnic groups does Nigeria have?
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4 main ethnic groups and home to more than 200 ethnic groups.
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Dar es Salaam is the greatest city and major port of this country.
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Tanzania
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Senegal shares one of the most unusual boundaries in the world with this country.
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Gambia
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Who organized the transportation of Jews to the camps?
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Eichmann
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The largest lake in Africa
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Lake Victoria
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The official language of Kenya and Tanzania
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Swahili
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This country has one third of the world's bauxite supply.
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Guinea
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This country is Africa's favorite tourist site.
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South Africa
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This West African country was formerly a German colony.
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Togo
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Who created the Gestapo and was commander of the German Luftwaffe?
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Heinrich Himmler
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Timbutktu, the ancient trading city is in what West African country?
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Mali
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What is one of the staple, or main foods of West Africa?
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root crops such as yams and cassava
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Who created the Gestapo and was commander of the German Luftwaffe?
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Goering
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Who planned and led the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazis
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish owned stores were burned and looted. Many Jews beaten, killed and sent to gas chambers
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Night of Glass
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Who was called the Angel of Death?
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Dr. Jose Mengele
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Hundres of synagogues and Jewish owned stores were burned and looted. Many Jews beaten, killed and sent to camps
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Night of Glass
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Meeting held in Germany January 20, 1942 about Final Solution
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Wannsee Conference
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Prejudice against and fear of Jews.
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anti Semitism
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Sanskrit name for a hooked cross
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Swastika
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Commercial name for hydrogen cyanide gas
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Zyklon B
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Who organized the Final Solution
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Heydrich
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These were created in the poor sections of cities. Surrounded by barbed wire and Jews had to live there.
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Ghettos
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Who was Plato?
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First Greek Philosopher
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Who was Socrates?
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Early philosopher
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The Olympic Games
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Early competitions held every four years originally in Greece in 776 BC
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Who is Hippocrates
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Father of Medicine
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Who is Leonardo da Vinci
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Italian artist in the late 1400s
Mona Lisa was his most famous work |
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Who was Plato?
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First Greek Philosopher
Most famous work is the Republic |
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Who was Plato?
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First Greek Philosopher
Most famous work is the Republic Socrates was his teacher |
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Who was Michelangelo?
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Famous artist who painted the Sistine Chapel
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Who was Isaac Newton
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English scientist/mathematician who developed the Law of Gravity
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Who was Martin Luther?
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Martin Luther was an English rebel who fought against the Reformation of the Church
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What was the Battle of Marathon?
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490 BC, the Battle of Marathon was between Persia and Greece
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What is Pax Romana
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the long period of peace enforced on states in the Roman Empire
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Who was Ptolemy
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One of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of his time
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What were the Crusades?
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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns during the time of Medieval England against the Muslims of the Middle East
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What was the Renaissance
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Renaissance means rebirth. This period saw a rebirth in knowledge. ... Giovanni Palestrina was one the Renaissance period's most important composers
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Who was Rembrandt?
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A Dutch artist of the 1400s whose most famous painting was "Night Watch."
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Who was Copernicus?
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The founder of modern astronomy
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Who was Galileo?
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Italian physicist and astronomer who made fundamental contributions to the science
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What were the Holy Inquisitions?
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A religious court by the Catholic church to find and punish those who were nonbelievers
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Who was Alfred Nobel?
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Swedish inventor of dynamite who set up the Nobel Prize award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace
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Magna Carta
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The Great Charter of English liberty granted by King John and the cornerstone for freedom and the basis for the US Constitution
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More than _____ people have died of AIDS
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24 million
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______ is the worst infectious catastrophe since bubonic plague
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HIV/AIDS
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Today there are _______ million people living with AIDS
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40
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By 2010, it is estimated there will be 40 million AIDS _____________ worldwide
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orphans
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Since 1988, the rate of infection of AIDS has increased by ________ percent in Russia
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1500%
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________ of AIDS transmission is through intraveneous drugs
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90%
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_________ has more cases of HIV/AIDS than any other nation in the world except Africa
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India
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The country with the highest numbers of HIV/AIDS in the world is ______
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Africa
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In India, HIV/AIDS is primarily transmitted through
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unsafe sex
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If the rate of infection remains the same, by 2010 more than _______ million people will have been infected with HIV/AIDS
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100
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Major religion in Germany and percentage
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38 percent of the German population was affiliated with the established Protestant (Evangelical) Church
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Where do the Catholics and Protestants live in Germany?
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Catholics live in south and west
Protestants live in north and east |
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After World War I, Germany was made to pay huge __________, admit guilt for the war and cede about _______ of its territory.
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33 billion dollars
10% of German territory |