Landforms
Sacred River in India, extremely polluted and serves more than 400,000,000 people
Ganges River
Founder and prophet of the Islamic faith
Muhammad
Islamic place of worship
Mosque
an intergovernmental organization of 14 nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members, and headquartered since 1965 that control the worldwide oil prices.
OPEC
a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
Nelson Mandela
Longest river in the world, runs through Egypt.
Nile river
Belgian King who opened Central Africa to trade and exploitation
King Leopold II
underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials. Groundwater can be extracted using a water well.
aquifer
the belief in the existence of only one god that created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world.
Monotheistic
the policy of a nation seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of opening trade opportunities
Colonialism
Largest Forest in the world characterized by coniferous trees such as pines
Taiga
A Congolese politician and military officer who was the military dictator and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1965 to 1997.
Mobutu Sese Seko
A government that is ruled by religious leaders, popular in Muslim majority countries.
Theocracy
a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s
Apartheid
a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II.
Cold War
Arm of the North sea that was transformed to a fresh water lake in the Netherlands
Zuider Zee
Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid–1920s until 1953 as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Premier. Responsible for the death of millions of Russians.
Joseph Stalin
a geopolitical term, typically used for grouping the three sovereign states in Northern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea ; Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Baltic republics
the nationalist movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel.
Zionism
The oldest and deepest lake in the world, located in Siberia
Lake Baikal
a fertile black soil rich in humus, with a lighter lime-rich layer beneath. Such soils typically occur in temperate grasslands in Northern Europe
Chernozem
Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was General Secretary of its governing Communist Party from 1985 until 1991.
Mikail Gorbachev
a society that is not governed by a state, or, especially in common American English, has no government but is ran by family lineage and patriarchy.
Stateless Society
a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries and marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. with a focus on arts and sciences
Renaissance
production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
Command Economy