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18 Cards in this Set

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Peter the Great
Tsar of Russia, 1600s expanded Russia through a bunch of wars and turned it into a major European Power
Mikhali Gorbachev
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
Vladimir Putin
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),
Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
Felipe Calderon
Current president of mexico, head of state and government. PAN party elected in 2006. Beat out the PRD and PRI candidates
Dilma Rousseff
President of Brazil
Daniel Ortego
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
Fidel Castro
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.
Jean Gottman
French geographer who was most widely known for his seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast Megalopolis.
Hugo Chavez
Current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999
Joel Garreau
An American journalist, scholar and author of Radical Evolution, Edge City and The Nine Nations of North America.
Mestizo
Is a term traditionally used in Spain and Latin America for people of mixed heritage or descent.
Separatists
Is the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group.
Oligarchs
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.
Inca
The Inca Empire, (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America
Aztecs
Aztecs (last of the great civilization in Mexico) and their predecessors
Hernan Cortez
1300-1521 because they got conquered by Hernando Cortez
Inuit
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)