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Physical Geography
Early History
Industrial Rev./Nationalism
Russia
100
surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
Longest river in Europe/Western Russia.
What is the Volga?
100
Democracy reached its highest point in Athens.
What is the Golden Age?
100
First machines were invented here.
Where was Great Britain?
100
Brought western culture to Russia.
Who was Peter the Great?
200
system where goods move freely without barriers.
What is single market?
200
Brings warm water to Western Europe.
What is the North Atlantic Current?
200
Developed system of written laws.
What is the Roman Empire?
200
European country that controlled the most territory in the early 1900's?
What was the United Kingdom?
200
The last Russian Tsar.
Who was Nicholas II?
300
During the age of ___________, many European countries took over other nations and turned them into colonies
What is imperialism?
300
Landform shared by both Europe and Russia.
What is the North European Plain?
300
Created calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
The Axis powers in World War II.
Who were Germany, Italy, and Japan?
300
Union of ___________ _____________ Republics.
What is Soviet Socialist?
400
In Europe, winds have deposited a type of rich, dust like soil known as __________.
What is loess?
400
Separates the continents of Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
400
English king who was tried and put to death during the English Revolution in the 1600's.
Who was King Charles I?
400
1914-1918.
What is World War I?
400
Made reforms in the 1980's that allowed more personal freedoms.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
permanently frozen layer of ground below the top layer of soil.
What is permafrost?
500
grasslands of fertile soil suitable for farming in Russia.
What are the steppes?
500
Invented in Germany in 1450.
What is the printing press?
500
United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union.
What were the allies during World War II?
500
1945-1991.
When was the Cold War?