EOC Flashcards
(33 cards)
What was the result of the Industrial Revolution?
Increased exportation of manufactured good to the virtual colonies.
Where are Germany’s most important industrial centers?
The central part of the country
What separates the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe?
The Pyrenees Mountains
Why are the Basques different from other people in Spain?
Because they speak a language that is not related to other languages of Europe.
The Renaissance was a time of what?
Art & learning
The murder of Jews, Poles, & other people by the Nazis during WW2 is referred to as what?
The Holocaust
Why is Hungary called the breadbasket of Europe?
Because of its fertile farm region
What is an entrepreneur?
A person who starts & builds a business
Where did the chernoble nuclear explosion take place?
Ukraine
European longest river
The Volga
Climate of Russia
Subarctic & continental
Why are relations between anemia & turkey particularly bitter?
Because of a Turkish massacre of Armenians during WW1
Cultural divergence
Deliberate efforts to keep groups separate
Geothermal energy
Energy produced from the heat of the earths interior
Mixed economies
Systems combining different degrees of government regulation
Tertiary economic activities
Service industry such as finance insurance and tourism
Confederation
This organization of independent states
Recession
Extended decline in general business activity
Reparations
Money for war damages
Nationalize
To bring industries under state control
Why were the relations between turkey and Armenia particularly bitter?
Because of the turkeys massacre of Arminians during World War I
What caused Jordan to lose most of its fertile land
Because of 1967 war
Where do the majority of Egypt people live
Near the Nile river and in the Nile Delta
Even though central African nations have a lot of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources they still have not been economic success
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