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| Who were the Axis Powers during WW2? |
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| Why was some of the worst water and air pollution in Europe caused by factories in Poland? |
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| because they were under communist rule |
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| Where is the larges Eastern European country excluding Russia? |
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| the large area of farmland in Ukraine |
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| What was the Protestant Reformation? |
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| a movement to change the Catholic Church |
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| What in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan is causing the Aral Sea to rapidly dry up? |
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| What happens when an economy industrializes? |
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| it changes to rely more on manufacturing and less on farming |
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| What did the communists fear when the Russian capital was moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow? |
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| What did Muslims call the time Muhammed was force to flee Makkan? |
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| Since when has one political parth have control over Syria's government and restricted political freedoms? |
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| Who believes that Moses revealed god's law in the form of the 10 commandments? |
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| What are the descendants of the Arabs and Berbers who conquered Spain in the AD 700s? |
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| What country in Africa has many natural resources and coastal ports? |
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| What is the only country in West Africa that never was a European Colony? |
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| What is the country of Equatorial Guinea made up of? |
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| 5 offshore islands plus a small territory on the west coast of Africa |
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| Who were the powerfula and wealthy kingdoms that ruled west Africa's coastal regions? |
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| What wast eh first Islamic country to elect a female prime minister? |
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| Japan's fishing fleet provides what percentage of the world's fish? |
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| Who inherits the right to rule in a monarchy? |
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| What on the earth changes as sunlight falls on different parts of the earth at different times during the year? |
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| What are the major world religions? |
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| Buddhism, Christianity, ISlam, and Judahism |
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| taking down of trade barriers so that goods flow freely |
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| Who was the first pope to come from Poland? |
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| Pope John Paul the second |
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| When did the US and other nations bomb Serbia to try toe end conflict in Kosovo? |
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| When, in the period of renewed intrest in education, art adn science was called the Renaissance? |
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| What is the North European Plain? |
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| a fertile area that stretches from France to Russia |
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| What is the competition for world influence between the US and Soviet Union after WW2? |
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| During the Cold War, the Eastern European countries formed an imaginary line called what? |
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| What is a federal republic? |
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| a nation in which power is divided between national and state governments |
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| What country has 11 time zones because it is very wide? |
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| Who made a form of paper out of a plant called paprus? |
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| What is the name of the group that works to increase incom from the sale fo oil? |
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| When did Mansa Musa, Mali's ruler, make a tombouctu- a leading center of Islamic Learning? |
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| Because of its location on the Equator, who has a tropical climate? |
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