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18 Cards in this Set
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Peter the Great
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Tsar of Russia, 1600s expanded Russia through a bunch of wars and turned it into a major European Power
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Mikhali Gorbachev
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He was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War, and also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union
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Vladimir Putin
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He became Acting President of Russia on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and was sworn in as President following the elections on May 7, 2000. In 2004 he was re-elected for a second term (and last under the current Constitution),
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Stephen Harper
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Prime Minister of Canada
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Felipe Calderon
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Current president of mexico, head of state and government. PAN party elected in 2006. Beat out the PRD and PRI candidates
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Dilma Rousseff
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President of Brazil
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Daniel Ortego
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José Daniel Ortega Saavedra is a Nicaraguan politician. He is the current President of Nicaragua, a position he has held previously between 1985 and 1990
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Fidel Castro
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Cuban communist revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.
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Jean Gottman
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French geographer who was most widely known for his seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast Megalopolis.
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Hugo Chavez
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Current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999
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Joel Garreau
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An American journalist, scholar and author of Radical Evolution, Edge City and The Nine Nations of North America.
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Mestizo
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Is a term traditionally used in Spain and Latin America for people of mixed heritage or descent.
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Separatists
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Is the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group.
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Oligarchs
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is a near-synonym of the term "business magnate", borrowed by the English speaking and western media from Russian parlance to describe the huge, fast-acquired wealth of some businessmen of the former Soviet republics (mostly Russia and Ukraine) during privatization in Russia and other post-Soviet states in 1990s.
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Inca
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The Inca Empire, (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America
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Aztecs
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Aztecs (last of the great civilization in Mexico) and their predecessors
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Hernan Cortez
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1300-1521 because they got conquered by Hernando Cortez
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Inuit
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are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, the United States, and eastern Siberia. Inuit is a plural noun; the singular is "Inuk" (Eskimo Families)
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