Geography
Natural Resources
History
Politics
Miscellaneous
100

You are in this region if you want to access to the Arctic Ocean, Caspian Sea, and Black Sea.

What is Russia & the Eurasian Republics?

100

Exporting of natural resources affected European colonization of Africa in this way.

What is economic development?

100

Many conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa resulted from European colonization because of this event.

What is establishment of boundary lines between indigenous nations.
100

Why the government of Russia is considered more limited than the government of the Soviet Union.

What is the people of Russia are allowed to vote in elections?

100

These people wander from place to place looking for food and water, never living in one place for long periods of time.

What are nomads?

200

Mount Kilimanjaro, the Sahara Desert, and the Great Rift Valley are on this continent.

What is Africa?

200

The distribution of natural resources in Southwest Asia and North Africa affected the economic patterns in the region.

What is nations in the region have significant wealth from the sale of oil?

200

This historical event led to the formation of the official languages of the different countries of Africa (i.e., English spoken in Egypt and French spoken in Rwanda).

What is European Colonization?

200

How decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa contributed to political instability in some nations of the region.

What is African nations being able to form effective government systems?

200

OPEC stands for this organization.

What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?

300

This geographic feature dominates the landscape of North Africa and Southwest Asia.

What are vast deserts?

300

Many nations in the world established trade relationships with countries in Southwest Asia and North Africa for this reason.

What is the increasing demand for oil in the world?

300

Throughout history, many nomadic tribes moved through various regions (such as Russia and the Eurasion Republics) causing this lasting impact on the region.

What is people in the regions speaking many different languages?

300

In a communist economic system, such as that in the former Soviet Union, economic decisions are primarily made by this group.

What is the central government?
300

Many recent conflicts in Southwest Asia and Southern Africa are related to this.

What are conflicting claims for territory?

400

This region of the world contains major oil producing countries in Southwest Asia.

What is the Arabian Peninsula?

400

The rush of European countries to colonize Africa in order to acquire more raw materials for industrialization.

What is The Mad Scramble of Africa?

400

He led the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 and organized Russia into several self-governing republics known as the USSR.

Who is Vladimir Lenin?
400

This historical factor led to the break up of the former Soviet Union in 1991.

What is the many former Soviet states had once been independent nations?
400

Muslim traders exchanging goods, creating fortunes, and spreading Islam throughout Southwest Asia is an example of this.

What is cultural diffusion?

500
This geographic factor is MOST responsible for the arable land found in Egypt.

What is river flooding depositing rich soil?

500

On October 17, 1973, oil producing countries in Southwest Asia created this cooperative organization.

What is OPEC?

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

500

Many Eastern European countries came to be associated with the Soviet Union following the second World War as a result of this action.

What is Eastern European countries were forced to adopt communism?

500

The protests in Petrograd occurred in this country.

What is Russia?

500

During the Bolshevik revolution, thousands of people marched through the streets of Petrograd yelling this phrase.

What is "Bread! Bread!"