Short Response
What is formed from two or more clans?
Tribes
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What Reservoir was created with the construction of the Aswan High Dam?
Lake Nasser
A _____ is a large landform that is bigger than a peninsula and smaller than a continent.
subcontinent
Rich black soil in Russia
chernozem
What is the name of God in Arabic?
Allah
What language did the Boers develop?
Afrikaans
What was one of the three empires in West Africa?
Ghana, Mali, or Songhai
Iberian
The longest river in Europe
Volga
Jewish place of Worship
synagogue
On what peninsula did the Risorgimento, a political movement to unite the country, occur?
Iberian Peninsula
What is practiced on Chinese prisoners to attract a profit in China?
organ harvesting
______ is also known as the Emerald Isle.
Ireland
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The Russian Legislature.
Federal Assembly
What type of law is based on the qur'an and the Hadith?
Sharia
The Ottomans were affiliated with what religion?
Islam
What countries in these two regions are primarily Eastern Orthodox?
Armenia and Georgia
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The city of ______ is known as the Queen of the Adriatic.
Venice
krais
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What term refers to the towers of the building from which Muslims are called to their daily prayers?
minaret
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What is a destructive wave that results from an earthquake in the ocean?
Tsunami
Where does the name Korea come from?
Koryo Dynasty
A ________ is a mountain formed by fault-line movement.
massif
permafrost
ethnic group originally located in Iran