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23 Cards in this Set
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In the lowland countries, the regions around which mountain range are heavily industrialized and densely populated?
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Ardennes Mountains
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Which 3 cities were part of the Hanseatic League?
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Brugge, Antwerpen, and Rotterdam
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Which river is important, with big cities along it?
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Scheldt River
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Where do the Rhine and Ruhr rivers intersect?
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Ruhr-Rhine Valley
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Which region of Belgium speaks French?
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Wallonia
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Which region of Belgium is Germanic?
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Flanders
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Which region of Belgium used to be hillbillies and rednecks?
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Flanders
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Which region of Belgium is associated with heavy industry?
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Wallonia
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Belgium was part of what country in the 1600s?
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Netherlands
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HQ of EU, NATO, Western Europe, customs union; waffles, french fries, chocolate, Manekin Pis
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Brussels
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#2 City of Belgium, diamond-cutting capital of the world, seaport, lots of Hasidic Jews, used to be the richest in the world, Hanseatic League city
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Antwerpen
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Had 3 periods, of Peppers, Silver, and Cloth. Largest concentration of oil refineries after Houstin, TX
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Antwerpen
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Old University, Volva + Honda - Car manufacturing, Famous Treaty here
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Ghent
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Flemish city, involved in WWI, battles of Ypres, old seaport, Hanseatic league city
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Brugge
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Venice of the north - canals, old gothic architecture
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Brugge
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In Wallonia, French-speaking, on meuse River, Crystal, steel and high quality armaments, trying to start manufacturing aircraft parts
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Liege
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Small, packaged American tours, on highway for German invasions, fortress 30 ft thick built by john the blind, General Mccall said "Nuts!"
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Bastogne
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Banking center, suburb - "bedroom community", capital of Luxembourg
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Luxembourg
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Mixed-state private economy, very successful, Catholics and Reformed, low % of catholics go to church, one of first countries with elected parliament, started the EU, NATO, WCO
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Netherlands
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hanseatic league city, mostly on reclaimed land, canal city, hostels, heineken brewery, commercial district, expensive housing subsidized by the government, liberal on immigration, capital of Netherlands
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Amsterdam
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important trading center in Rhine delta, "Germany's Seaport", oil, urban business core, weird architecture
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Rotterdam
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Suburb for wealthy, sea of Dutch Government, king lives here, tribunals for war crimes, international law universities
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The Hague
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Competitor for oldest university, medical field, most nobel prizes for medicine, Eurotransplant Company
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Leiden
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