Southwest Asia
Meaning of Mesopotamia
land between rivers
One of the earliest cultures to develop into a civilization with large cities was the ____
Olmec
what type climate is Russia
type D
Most of Europe is accessible by what
water transport either via the many rivers or along the extensive coastlines of the peninsulas and islands.
Both the United States and Canada are products of ____ colonialism
European
what is desalinization
The process of removing salt from seawater.
What cuts across Mexico, dividing it into two different climatic zones: a temperate zone to the north and a tropical zone to the south
Tropic of Cancer
Which came first: Russian Federation, Russian empire or USSR?
Russian Empire
Scotland has a mild enough climate to support some forms of tropical flora, even though it is at a degree of latitude as far north as Hudson Bay, Canada. Why?
The Gulf Stream
what is the manifest destiny
Cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
what is diaspora
The expulsion and dispersion of the Jews outside Israel
Explain rimland vs mainland. Include where this concept occured
The rimland, which includes the Caribbean islands and the Caribbean coastal areas of Central America, and the mainland, which includes the interior of Mexico and Central America, are the two geographical areas of Middle America
Taiga
large expanse of evergreen or boreal forests in the north just south of the tundra in North America, Europe, and Asia.
What is a major natural resource of Europe?
fish
The western United States experiences a strong ______ effect.
rain shadow
5 pillars of islam
Which civilization made an accurate calendar based on the seasons and the solar system
Mayan civilization
What is chernozem and where is it found
black topsoil, one of the world's richest soils found in Ukraine and into Russia
4, Alpine region, Central Uplands, Northern Lowlands, and Western Highlands.
Which 3 states account for about one-third of the entire US population growth since 1990
California, texas and florida
The countries of the realm share three key dominant traits that influence all other human activities. What are they?
Climate
Religion
Availability of natural resources
The Aztec leader Montezuma II originally thought Cortés and his men were who
White gods sent to recover the empire
What kind of economy did the Soviet union have
a command economy, in which economic decisions were made by the state and not left to the market to decide.
They connected their world of Europe by building roads, bridges, aqueducts, and port facilities. Who were they?
Roman Empire
Western migration was spurred on by which two events
California Gold Rush of 1849 and by the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.