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This body of water is located on Ukraine's southern border
What is the Black Sea?
This religion started in the Middle East approximately two thousand years ago and has become Europe's most popular religion
What is Christianity?
This is the site of the first recorded democracy.
What is Athens?
This branch of the U.S. government makes laws and is comprised of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives
What is legislative branch?
Hulu, Netflix, and other companies that specialize in streaming TV shows and movies are this type of industry.
What is a service industry?
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe and crossed this ocean before reaching the Americas
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What is a multicultural society?
This pre-Columbian civilization ruled over what is today central Mexico and captured their enemies for human sacrifice
Who were the Aztecs?
What is federalism?
In this type of economic system, businesses compete with one another, price is determined by the law of supply and demand, and the government interferes very little.
What is free market?
The largest ocean on Earth, this body of water is surrounded by a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The movement of people from one place to another and one of the main reasons people speak so many different languages in Europe.
What is migration?
This was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) where no direct battles between the two countries took place
This is a type of government where a king or queen only has limited power to rule and shares power with other branches of government
What is a constitutional monarchy?
In this type of economic system, the factors of production, prices, incomes, and all other facets of business are determined and controlled by a central government.
What is a command economy?
One of the busiest waterways on Earth, this narrow body of water separates the British Isles from France and the rest of mainland Europe
What is the English Channel?
This is the mutual sharing and adaptation of cultural elements between two or more cultures
What is cultural exchange?
These were a series of religious wars fought between Christians and Muslims for control of what is today Israel and Palestine
What were the Crusades?
This is a type of government where power is not shared between the central and local governments.
What is a unitary government?
This type of command economic system aims for equality, but often results in authoritarianism and a lack of personal freedom.
What is communism?
During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal and sworn enemy of the Rome, had to cross these mountains before he could invade Italy
What are the Alps?
This is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another
These warriors, traders, and explorers originated in the Nordic countries but traveled throughout Europe, North Africa, Asia, and even as far as North America
Who were the Vikings?
This is an example of a type of government where only a few people rule over everyone else.
What is an oligarchy?
What is a traditional economy?