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30 Cards in this Set
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Highest Peak in Europe
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Mt. Elbrus
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Narrow strip of land that connects two landmasses
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Isthmus
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Capital of Greece
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Athens
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Capital of Spain
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Madrid
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Capital of Russia
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Moscow
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In which German City did the Communists build a wall to keep people from escaping to freedom?
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Berlin
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About 1/4 of the land of which country is polder, land that has been taken from the sea by using dams, dikes, and windmills to drain the water.
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The Netherlands
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The "Cradle of Civilization"
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The Fertile Cresent
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Capital of Iraq
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Baghdad
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The largest City in the World (population)
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Tokyo
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The Baltic States
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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
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Parts of the Alps extend into these countries
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Austria, France, Switzerland
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The most accurate display of the earth's features, shapes, sizes, and locations
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a globe
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world's largest peninsula
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Arabian Peninsula
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Gerogia,Armenia, and Azerbaijan were once under the control of whom?
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The Soviet Union
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Which countries occupies the Jutland Peninsula
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Denmark
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The world's oldest republic
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San Marino
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A person skilled in displaying geographic information on maps and globes
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cartographer
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Which country is known as the Emerald Isle?
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Ireland
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The Indian society is based on what kind of system, which is a strict division of social classes?
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Caste system
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What continent is considered the birthplace of Western Civilization?
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Europe
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What are the four major political divisions of the United Kingdom?
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England, Northern Ireland,Scotland, Wales
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On what parallel were North and South Korea divided?
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38th
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What body of water separates Great Britain from continental Europe?
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English Channel
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What country is spread over the thousands of islands in the Malay Archipelago?
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Indonesia
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What is the main product exported from the Arabian Peninsula?
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oil
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What tiny European country is the world's smallest independent state?
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Vatican City
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What city do both Muslims and Jews claim as a holy city?
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Jerusalem
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What plateau is known as the "Roof of the world"
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Tibet
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What narrow body of water separates the Iberian Peninsula from North Africa?
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Strait of Gibraltar
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