World Geography

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Size of Russia

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6,592,812 square miles

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Northern European plain and the connection to agriculture

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Chernozem (black earth) very fertile land

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Caucasus mountains

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Between Caspian and black sea

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Ural mountain

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Separate the northern European plain and the west Siberian plain

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Kolymer range

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Northeast Russia takes up majority of the land

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Verkhoyansk range

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Northeast range below the Kolymer range

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Tundra

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Flat treeless land forming ring around Arctic Ocean

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Steppe

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Temperate grassland region

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Taiga

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Delta evergreen coniferous forests across Europe Asia and North America

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Climate factors of Russia

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High latitude mountains and Seaside

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Issues about the Aral Sea

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Has two rivers being used to try and create for farming

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Russian revolution

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Prompted by labor unrest in 1917, Czar Nicholas was murdered, Lenin sought control

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Mongol invasion

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Russia 1240 dominated for 250 years 1480 Ivan the third able to repel Mongol

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World War 1

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1914 to 1918 caused by assassination

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Cold War

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Conflict between US and Russia after world war 2 no open warfare

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Ivan the great

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First czar

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Gorbachev

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Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War

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Lenin

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Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set the world's first communist party

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Stalin

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Dictator of Russia

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Communism

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System where government has all of the power

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Free market economy

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System where free competition and price is determined by supply and demand

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Conflicts in the Caucasus

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Fights are breaking out

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Collective farms

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Enormous farms in the Soviet Union in team labor

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Nuclear power

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Energy that is harnessed from reactions among radioactive isotopes

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Privatization

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Selling of government property to private individuals

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Nuclear legacy

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nuclear bombs dropped still affect people and cause disfiguration sickness and still occurs today

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Nile River

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Longest river in the world and 4000 miles in Egypt

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Congo River

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Coaster Central African Congo Basin region

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Niger River

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Major river in West Africa and Delta contains oil

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Serengeti

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East Africa contains some of the best grass land for animal grazing

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Sahara

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Largest desert in the world 3000 miles across North Africa

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Canopy

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Uppermost part of the forest where most animals live

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Mount Kilimanjaro

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Volcano in Tanzania Africa is highest point

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désertification

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Sahara moving into Central Africa

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Niger Delta

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Delta of the Niger River contains oil

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Sahel

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Dry grassland east to west across southern edge of Sahara farming and hearding

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Lake Nasser

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Lake created by Ashland High Dam on the Nile River

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Berlin conference

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13 European countries got together and split Africa among them

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Rai

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Popular Algerian music develop to show political unhappiness in fast-paced

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Souk

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Market in Arab community

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Pandemic

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Epidemic that is geographically widespread and affects large proportion of population

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Stateless society

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people use lineages to govern themselves

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King Leopold the second

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Belgian roller that opened Africa interior to trade

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FW de Klerk

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South African Prime Minister 1982 19 nineties worked with Nelson Mandela dismantling the apartheid system

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Mobutu Sese Seko

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Leader of the DRC brought country business under control due to the army

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Laurent Kabila

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1997 to 2001 there is president after Mobutu band political parties transition to democracy

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Nelson Mandela

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Leader of South Africa helped band a apartheid

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Economic base for most of

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Subsistence farming

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Cholera

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And they're cute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated food or water

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HIV

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Human immunodeficiency virus attacks and destroys the immune system

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Malaria

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Disease by mosquitoes and planting parasites in the blood

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Tuberculosis

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Disease of human spread through the air affects lungs

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Brain drain

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Large-scale emigration by talented people

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Dead Sea

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Largest concentration of salt in an inland sea

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Persian Gulf

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1991 war fought between a coalition with us and Iraq to free Kuwait

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Jordan River

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River that slows down from the sea of galilee to the dead sea

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Red Sea

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Long arm of the Indian Ocean between North East Africa and Arabia

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Rub al-khali

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Aka Empty Quarter one of the largest sandy deserts Arabian Peninsula

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Negev

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Desert in southern Israel

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Golan Heights

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Chile Pato overlooking the Jordan River and is a site of conflict

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Suez Canal

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Human made waterway opened in 1869 connecting the red and Mediterranean Seas

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West Bank

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Region of West Jordan River became part of Jordan in 1948 6 Day War

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Sinai Peninsula

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Northeastern Egypt

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Desalinization

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Removal of salt from the ocean

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Fossil water

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Water pump from an underground aquifer

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Oasis

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Fertile place in a desert where there is water and vegetation

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Sunni

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83% of Muslims follow leadership of Muhammad appointed successors

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Abdul Aziz

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Leader of Saudi Arabia power over large areas of the Arabian Peninsula

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Muhammad

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Arab prophet founder of religion of Islam

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Colonization

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Physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place

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Zionism

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Policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine

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Crusades

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Series of holy wars in 1096 through 1270 ad undertaken by European Christians

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Pilgrimage

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journey to a sacred place

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OPEC

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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

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PLO

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Palestine Liberation Organization

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Strategic commodity

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Resource that people would be going to war for example oil and water

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Kurds

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Ethnic group that lives in parts of Iraq and Turkey suffered persecution in both countries

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Stateless nation

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Stateless nation nationality that is not represented by a state example Kurds

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Right of return

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Palestinians to describe their demand to reclaim the lands that lost in 1948

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Monsoons

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Seasonal winds causes droughts or flooding

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Alluvial plains

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Rich farmland composed of silt sand gravel deposited by running water

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Ganges River

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Holy river in South Asia

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Subcontinent

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Large landmass that juts out from a continent

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Himalaya Mountains

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Mountain range in South Asia includes Mount Everest

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Estuary

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Habitat in which the freshwater river meets the sea salt water ocean

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Deforestation

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Destruction and loss of forest

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Storm surge

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Dome of water that sweeps across the coast where hurricane lands

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Atoll

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Circular coral island that encloses a Lagoon

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Cyclone

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Storm with heavy rains and winds that blow in a circular pattern

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Caste system

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Hindu social class system is split into groups based on a person's birth

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mandalas

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Geometric figure representing the universe in Hindu

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Ramadan

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Pastels from sunrise to sunset that is carried out during that Islamic month of Ramadan

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Land reform

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Broke up large land holdings and distributed them among poor farmers

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Kashmir

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Region of northern India and Pakistan over which wars have been fought

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Microcredit

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Given small loan to start a business in India

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Partition

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And division it departs 1947 division of British colony of India to India and Pakistan

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Basic necessities

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Food shelter clothing and water

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Poverty in South Asia

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Remains an epidemic despite the pockets of progress

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Conflict over the Indus River

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Dispute about how much water and who controls the water

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Kunlun Mountains

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Mountains located west of China source of two great rivers the yellow on the Chang

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Qin Ling Shandi Mountains

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Divided North and South China

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Three Gorges Dam

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Ee Yangtze River world's biggest dam displaced 1.5 billion people

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PCBs

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Synthetic chemicals that cause birth defects

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Pacific Rim

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Countries that border the Pacific Ocean

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Economic tiger

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Economic growth by cheap labor aggressive exports and investment in tech

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Three Kingdoms

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kingdoms formed on the Korean Peninsula koguro paekche silla

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Mongolian Empire

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1206 to 1405 expanded out of Mongolia and into Europe

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Shogun

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Dictator and general who ruled Japan in the Emperor's name

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Samurai

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Class of warriors and feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble

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Genghis Khan

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Mongolian general known for military and cruelty

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Boxer Rebellion

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1900 uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country

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Taoism

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Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony

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Confucius

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Chinese philosopher and teacher

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Chaing Kai Shek

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Leader of the Nationalist Party in 1928 favored capitalist state

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Mao Zedong

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Come in as leader who took over China after world war 2

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Ring of Fire

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Circle of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean

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Settlement patterns in Australia

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Settle on the East Coast

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Outback

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Large desert in Australia little to no inhabitants

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Great Dividing Range

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Mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia

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Great Barrier Reef

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1250 ml chain of more than 2500 race along Australia

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Outrigger canoe

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Starship used in the lagoons of islands where Pacific Islanders settled

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Voyaging canoe

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Large ship for a long voyage