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This is the title of Russia's emperor (before 1917).
What is the Tsar?
A low, bowl-shaped landform surrounded by higher land.
What is a Basin?
Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and scientist.
Who is Da Vinci?
The term for a city-state in Ancient Greece.
What is a Polis?
A belief in one god.
What is Monotheism?
The imaginary border dividing Europe into communist and noncommunist countries from '48 to '91.
What is the Iron Curtain?
An area of land almost entirely surrounded by water.
What is a Peninsula?
Spanish writer; author of Don Quixote.
Who is Cervantes?
For many years, the most powerful of all ancient Greek city-states; capital of present-day Greece.
What is Athens?
If you are part of this religion, you might read the Torah or go to a synagogue.
What is Judaism?
A political and economic system in which the government controls all land and industry.
What is Communism?
A broad, grassy, plain with few trees, found especially in large parts of Africa?
What is a Savanna?
English dramatist and poet.
Who is Shakespeare?
King of Macedonia; his conquests spread Greek culture throughout parts of three continents; I guess he was better than just "good".
Who is Alexander the Great?
This belief system includes the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
Part of Stalin's new order, these multi-family operations helped feed Russia during the command economy.
What are Collective Farms?
A long, narrow inlet of the sea between high cliffs.
What is a Fjord?
Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
Who is Michelangelo?
A lengthy poem that tells the story of heroes in legend or history.
What is an Epic?
An idea important to the Renaissance that focused on human values and what people can achieve in this world.
What is Humanism?
A member of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia in November, 1917.
Who is Bolshevik?
A seasonal wind that blows across South Asia bringing dry weather in the winter and heavy rains in the summer.
What is a Monsoon?
Italian Renaissance political thinker and author of The Prince.
Who is Machiavelli?
Among many ancient Greek achievements are philosophy, theater, architecture, music, sports, and this.
What is geometry?
A philosophy of strict government in China in the 200s B.C. in which citizens were encouraged to serve the needs of the state.
What is Legalism?