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What are the features of a developed country?
Most of its people are well educated, have good health, and earn decent salaries. It has clean, running water, electricity, and transportation. The technology and businesses flourish.
What do people share in a culture region?
They share similar beliefs, history, and languages.
In the study of history, what are primary sources?
They are materials written by people of the past.
Who is in charge of a totalarian government?
The rulers are in control.
In a command economy, production decisions are made by __________.
The government.
In a market economy, production decisions are made by _________.
The individual business.
History is the study of the ________.
Past.
The Ottoman Empire collapsed after the end of ________.
World War I.
A line that runs parallel to the equator is a line of ________.
Latitude.
A map showing populations of Asia is a __________ map.
Thematic.
Opportunities for peace, freedom, education, and good jobs are _____ factors
Pull.
The study of _______ plates will reveal the movement of the continents.
Tectonic.
How is a globe superior to a map?
It's an accurate model of the world.
How is a map superior to a globe?
They can be carried around easily, folded, hung on a wall, or printed in a book or magazine.
To study people adapting to natural resources, you would use the term of h______ e________ i________.
Human enviroment interaction.
The Ottoman Empire was carved up between two European countires, _________ and ________
Great Britain and France.
The most improtant primary product of SW Asia is _______.
Oil.
Muslims fast during the month of ________.
Ramadan.
What was the main purpose for building the Suez Canal?
The Egyptian ruler wanted it to make Egypt the equal of Western nations.
The first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel was ______.
Egypt.
_________ brought about westernization in Turkey.
Mustafa Kemal.
Turkey is a member of N___.
NATO.
The Sahel, south of the Sahara, is a s_______ region.
Semiarid.
Civil war in Nigeria was caused by d_______.
Diversity.
Europeans established colonies in Africa because they wanted the r____ m______.
Raw materials.
Desertafication is cause by overgrazing and d_______.
Drought.
The Banta made weapons of ______.
Iron.
Sub-Saharan Africans traded gold for s______.
Salt.
The policy of segregation in South Africa was called a_________.
Apartheid.
The Pan African Congress worked to estabilsh i__________ for the countries of Africa.
Independence.
The borders of modern African nations were established by __________ leaders.
European.
Ghana was the first to have c______ p_______ e_______.
Compulsory primary education.
Most African countries today are striving for a m_____ economy.
Market.
What is the occupation of most of the population of Western and Central Africa?
Farmer.
When is a rite of passage usually celebrated?
When one passes from on stage of life to another.
The first African to win the Nibel Prize for Literature was S______.
Soyinka.
Why did the Kingdom of Aksum lose most of its trade around AD 350?
Islam came to Arabia and Aksum lost much of its trade becuase the Muslim Arabians prefered to trade with other Muslims.
The Masai people make a living through p________.
Pastoralism.
What has killed most of the native fish in Lake Victoria?
Overfishing.
The poorest region of Africa is the ________ region.
Eastern.
Harambee schools have been built in K______.
Kenya.
Kenya's economy depends on t________.
Tourism.
Interdependence between countries has increased because of ______________.
Advances in communication and transportation.