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steppe
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level plains, short grass, 10-20 inches of rain per year, between savanna and desert
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savanna
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tall grass, always hot, 30-50 inches of rain per year, scattered trees, dry winter/ rainy summer
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desert
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little vegetation, less than 10 inches of rain per year
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tropical rainforest
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always hot and rainy, bad for farming, 150 of rain, leaching
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mediterranean
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rainy/mild winters, warm/ dry summers
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oasis
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opposite of an island, spot of water in a desert
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"sudan"
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"Land of blacks", grasslands NORTH of equator
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Largest Country in Africa (Population)
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Nigeria
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Largest Country (Land Mass)
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Sudan
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Largest City (Population)
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Cairo, Egypt
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
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Tanzania, 19340 ft, highest peak in Africa
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Serengeti Plain
Definition
East Africa, Tanzania & Kenya?
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Life Expectancy in Somalia
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48 years old
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Dark Continent
Definition
Africa was very unknkown to Europeans around 3000BCE-1400s
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Nile River
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longest river (4132 miles), flows from south to north, Mediterranean Sea, provided irrigation from flooding and fertilizer
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Limpopo River
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2nd largest in Africa, forms border between South Africa and Zimbabwe and parts of the ones between South Africa Botswana and Mozambique, Central Southern Africa
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Congo River
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also known as Zaire River, West Central Africa, deepest river in the world
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Zambezi
Definition
south central Africa
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Niger River
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western Africa, 3rd largest, runs in a crescent through Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin, and Nigeria
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Orange River
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southern Africa, Nambia and South Africa
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Where human life began
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Ethiopia
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Egyptians
Definition
3000-1000BC, used pyramids for tombs, scholars can read the hieroglyphics, 1st calendar, mummification, spinx, math based on 10,m mostly farmers, NILE RIVER
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Kush/ Nubia
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lasted 2000 years (1600BCE-350CE), scholars cant read their writing so little is known, below Egypt
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Axum
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325CE-725 CE, dependent on agriculture and trade, East Africa, Ethiopian Highlands, adopted Christianity in 350CE
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Mali
Definition
Abu Bakar 2: dreamed of exploring ocean went out with 200 ships but only 1 returns, Mansa Musa: "Emperor Moses" pilgrimage to Mecca, made Timbuktu famous, West Africa, 1000-1500s
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Songhai
Definition
covered size of Western Eurioe, defeated by Morocco in 1590
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Ghana
Definition
"land of gold", set limitation on gold sold, protected trade routes, 1957: 1st indpendent nation of Britain, Gold Coast
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Benin
Definition
pepper, cloth, cotton, ivory, slaves, terra cotta artwork
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Ashanti
Definition
1600-1850s, West Africa
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Shawhili
Definition
1200s-1600s, South Africa
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Great Zimbabwe
Definition
stone enclosure, between Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers
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Timbuktu
Definition
Mali, Mansa Musa made Timbuktu famous
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Gold Coast
Definition
today- Guinea Coast
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Guinea Coast
Definition
slave trade, West Africa, "Gold Coast"
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Swahili Coast
Definition
city states, Arabia/ Persia/ Asia traders, East Africa, mainly in Kenya Tanzania Somalia and Mozambique, urban culture, gold, ivory, slaves, leopards
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Barbary Coast
Definition
slave trade, along Mediterranean Sea, North Africa, includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, &Egypt
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Boers
Definition
Dutch for "farmers", descendents of Dutch in South Africa
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British in Africa
Definition
contolled the most people
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French in Africa
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contolled the most land
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Portuguese in Africa
Definition
controlled Congo River Area
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Zulu
Definition
leader: Shaka, all men were proud to join the military, now: 7million in Southern Africa, 1819:ruled most of Southeast Africa, Age Grades
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Shaka
Definition
leader of Zulus
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King Leopald 2
Definition
Belguim, brutal control, cousin to Queen Victoria of UK, founder/ owner of Congo Free State
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Suez Canal
Definition
shortens travel time between Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, Egypt
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Monrovia, Liberia
Definition
capital of Liberia, 1822, Freed Americans went there
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David Lingstone
Definition
Scottish medical missionary, named Victoria Falls, rumored dead
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Henry M. Stanley
Definition
born in wales Great Britain, "explorer", worked for Leopold 2, journalist in America, legacy of destroying Congo, "Finds Livingstone"
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Victoria Falls
Definition
named in 1840s by Dr. Livingstone
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Paternalism
Definition
attitude towards Africans, discrimination, systematic inequality, Europe thought they couldnt be in charge of their own land & resources
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Scramble for Africa
Definition
native empires overtaken, by 1914: almost all of Africa overtaken by Europeans
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# of Languages in Africa
Definition
1000 languages, widely spoken: Arabic, Swahili, Hausa
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ANC
Definition
African National Congress, 1912, South Africans pushed for black representation in South African's parliament
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pan-african movement
Definition
1900, WEB Dubois- leader, West Indians and Americans defending rights of all African descendants
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Marcus Garvey
Definition
Jamacian, 1914, UNIA, freedom for all blacks, urged all blacks to return to Africa
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Apartheid
Definition
apartness/ separate devolpment, white minority rule, pass laws, interracial marriages banned, Europe practiced 1st, 1948: offical goverment policy, policy of segregation, each race classified
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Nelson Mandela
Definition

Robben island prison, worked as a political prisoner in South Africa, 1st black president, ended apartheid, won Nobel Peace prize with deKlerk in 1993

 

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Ghana
Definition
1957, 1st independent nation of Britain
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Congo
Definition
1960, totally unprepared for independence, riots and civil war, Belguim
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Kenya independence
Definition

 

1963, land disputes(1% ownded all land), Britain

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Guinea Independence
Definition
French, only French owned to choose full independence, 1958
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Patrice Lumumba
Definition
asked UN and soviets for help with newly independent Congo, killed by rivals in cooperation from Belguim and Us in 1961
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Joseph Mobutu
Definition
gains power as president after Lumumba is dead, president til 1997
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hutu
Definition
farmers
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tutsi
Definition
herders,more powerful historically,pastoral
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twa
Definition
3rd smaller group, uninvolved in ethnic conflicts between Hutu and Tutsi
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scapegoat
Definition
someone used to blame problems on
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Somalias goverment
Definition
no functioning goverment since 1991, rival warlords(6 major clans), famine, disease
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Food Aid in Somalia
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1/3 of the country relies on food aid
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Pirate Activity in Somalia
Definition
Horn of Africa, Puntland, Vital Waterways: Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea, stop ships and hold people hostage for ransom
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Pygmies
Definition
4'-4'8" adults, central Africa, thick tropical forest, Baka and Efa tribes, 150000 population, way of like threatened
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Slavs
Definition
500 CE, start out as isolated but quickly built trade routes, 800 CE: came under rule of Varangians
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???Eastern Orthodox
Definition
Vladimir brings in 987
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Constantinople/ Istanbul
Definition
Byzantine Empire, 300-1453 CE, captial was Constantinople, now is called Istanbul, present-day Turkey
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Kievan Rus
Definition
By 900: ruled by princes, loose union of city states
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Csar/ Tsar
Definition
same thing spelt differently, came from "Caesar" › emperor, autocratic (allpowerful)
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Ivan 3
Definition
1st czar, "Ivan the Great", ruled from 1462-1505, was grand prince of Moscow, rebuilt Kremlin (fortress)
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Ivan 4
Definition
grandson of Ivan 3, ruled 1533-1584, set up Oprichniki, "The Terrible" or "The Awesome", smart, cruel, pious
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Oprichniki
Definition
secret police set up by Ivan 4, terrorized people into submission
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Pious
Definition
very reliogus, used to describe Ivan 4
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Boyars
Definition
900s, weathly merchants and landed nobles helped advise princes
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Cossacks
Definition
escaped serfs, fleed to borderland, self governing, skilled fighters, Ukraine and Russia, group of pioneers
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Time of Trouble in Russia
Definition
after Ivan IV's death, series of weak leaders, false czars fought for power, country torn apart by: famine, plague, and peasant revolts
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Michael Romanov
Definition
named czar in 1615, order restored, peasants were called serfs (worked land, taxes, serve in army)
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Peter the Great
Definition
1689, nearly 7 ft. tall, toured Europe because Russia was far behind, wanted land around Baltic Sea, founded St. Petersburg("Window to the West"), brought back Western ways: education, clothing, military, social customs (men had to shave beards)
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Catherine the Great
Definition
1762, bloodless coup d' etat gave her power, loved french ways(Frenchophile), Prussian royalty, expanded territory into Ukraine and Russia, successful in forgein policy, leading country in forgein affairs, married Peter III, By 1800: Russia's people had fewest rights of all of Europe
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Prussian
Definition
Germany
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Nicholas II
Definition
1894-1917, silenced opposition, refused to withdraw, abdictaed and assinated
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socialism
Definition
an economic system characterized by public ownership and centralized planning of all major industries (manufacturing, services, and energy), banks and insurance companies, agribusiness, transportation, the media, and medical facilities.
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communism
Definition
goverment of USSR, A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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Marxism
Definition
The political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed as the basis for communism. 
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Capitalism
Definition
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, will end according to Lenin
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Double Revolution
Definition
2 revolutions-February (march) and november, russian people against war, disatisfaction to revolution, Nicholas 2 refused to withdraw
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5 year plan
Definition
developed during Stalin's rule, used to allow Russia to become an industrial power, dictates wages and production
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Urals River/ Mountain?
Definition
dividing line
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Volga River
Definition
longest river in CIS
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Napolean Bonaparte
Definition
French, invades Russian in 1812, Russia wins
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Intelligenstia
Definition
writers,students, artists, chief opponents of goverment
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Bolsheviks
Definition
"majority", lead by Lenin, wanted to make peace with Germany, Reds in Civil war, communist side, sought to control Soviets, encouraged peasants to seize farms and factories
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communist Manifesto
Definition
The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement, German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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Proletariat
Definition
working class, deserved power according to Lenin
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Bourgeoisie
Definition
elite, Lenin thinks need to be overthrown
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Coup de tat
Definition
The sudden overthrow of a government by a usually small group of persons in or previously in positions of authority, Catherine the Greats way to power
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Gulag
Definition
Siberian work camps, Stalin
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Kulaks
Definition
weathy landowners, wiped out
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Lenin
Definition
Marxism, leader of socialist Russian revolution, introduced New Economic Policy (NEP), Father of Revolution, died-1924
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Trotsky
Definition
power struggle with Stalin after Lenin's death in 1924, wanted to promote world wide communist revolution, led Red Army to victory, exiled in 1928, assinated in Mexico in 1940, all traces of his name and associates were killed after he was
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Stalin
Definition
power struggle with Trotsky 1924, wanted to build up USSR, "Man of Steel", stayed in Moscow, made Russia industrial power, paranoid, got rid of those against communism
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Krushchev
Definition
1960s, denounces Stalin as murderer of innocent people, new Soviet leader, USSR becomes more relaxed, Cuban missile Crisis
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Brezhnev
Definition
1970s, realized western technology was needed to improve industry, cracked down on dissidents, still arms buildup of nuclear weapons
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Gorbachev
Definition
1980s, nuclear plant explosion at Chernobyl, sets USSR on new course
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Yeltsin
Definition
1990s, serves as president of "Russia" after fall of USSR in 1991, emerges as popular leader
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Putin
Definition
prime minister of Russia today
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Détente
Definition
relaxed global tensions
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glasnost
Definition
openess, Gorbachev
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Perestroika
Definition
restructing, Gorbachev
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Hardliners
Definition
old school people, attempted a coup
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Berlin Wall
Definition
built by Soviets in 1961, separates East and West Berlin, brain dead, symbol of iron curtain, Westerners could travel freely but Easterners could not leave
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Nationalist
Definition
one who loves and defends his country, an advocate of naational independence
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"man of Steel"
Definition
Joseph Stalin's made up name
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Iron Curtain
Definition
division between West/ East and democracy/ communism
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CIS
Definition
commonwealth of independent states, 1994-present, 1/6 of world land, counterpart to European union, made up of countries of former USSR amd other European countries,Mother Russia
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# of Time Zones in Russia
Definition
9 timezones (was 11)
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Cyrillic
Definition
alphabet, named in honor of Cyril (Byzantine Missionary), still used today,influence of Christian conversion
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icon
Definition
A painting of Christ or another holy figure, used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches, a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something
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Mongols takeover Russia
Definition
gives Russia sense of unity, obedience, isolated from West, developed own civilization, community's rights before individuals
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Former Yugoslavia Countries
Definition
Today: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia
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Marshal Tito
Definition
Josip Broz, debt and unequal development causes unrest, stable and friendly with west for many years, dies-1980
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NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, gets involved in 1995
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capital of Morocco
Definition
Rabat
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Capital of Algeria
Definition
Algiers
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Capital of Tunisia
Definition
Tunis
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capital of Egypt
Definition
Cairo
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capital of sudan
Definition
kharatoum
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capital of chad
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N'Djamena
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capital of djibouti
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djibouti
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capital of ethiopia
Definition
addis ababa
Term
capital of somalia
Definition
mogadishu
Term
capital of kenya
Definition
nairobi
Term
capital of rwanda
Definition
kigali
Term
capital of zimbabwe
Definition
harare
Term
capital of madagascar
Definition
antananarivo
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capital of south africa
Definition
pretoria
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capital of DRC
Definition
kinshasa
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capital of CAR
Definition
bangui
Term
capital of Eq. Guinea
Definition
malabo
Term
capital of Nigeria
Definition
Abuja
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Capital of ivory coast/ CÔte d'Ivoure
Definition
Abidjan
Term
capital of sierra leone
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freetown
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capital of estonia
Definition
tallinn
Term
capital of latvia
Definition
riga
Term
capital of lithuania
Definition
Vilnius
Term
capital of belarus
Definition
minsk
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capital of Russia
Definition
moscow
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capital of ukraine
Definition
kiev
Term
capital of moldova
Definition
chisiniau
Term
capital of romania
Definition
bucharest
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capital of belgium
Definition
brussels
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capital of macedonia
Definition
skopje
Term
capital of albania
Definition
tirana
Term
capital of montenegro
Definition
podgorica
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capital of serbia
Definition
belgrade
Term
capital of bosnia
Definition
sarajevo
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capital of croatia
Definition
zagreb
Term
capital of slovenia
Definition
ljubjana
Term
capital of hungary
Definition
budapest
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capital of czech republic
Definition
prague
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capital of poland
Definition
warsaw
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