AP World History Locations Flashcards
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| 4144060434 | Algeria | This country gains independence from France after a violent conflict |  | 0 |
| 4144072763 | Asia Minor | Area also known as Turkey or Anatolia |  | 1 |
| 4144079589 | Arabian Peninsula | Islam starts in this area |  | 2 |
| 4144082418 | Cambodia | Site of genocide led by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge |  | 3 |
| 4144092354 | Constantinople | The capital of Byzantine Empire Now Instanbul |  | 4 |
| 4144084536 | Pakistan (east and west) |  | 5 | |
| 4144100804 | England |  | 6 | |
| 4144102688 | Ethiopia | This country is only 1 of 2 countries to remain independent during the Age of Imperialism. Italy invades here in 1935. |  | 7 |
| 4144104815 | France | John Calvin was from here. |  | 8 |
| 4144106949 | French West Africa | This colony gained independence through peaceful means |  | 9 |
| 4144111010 | Germany |  | 10 | |
| 4144112478 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Cities in which the USA dropped atomic weapons in August 1945 |  | 11 |
| 4144116504 | India | Primarily a Hindu country. Briefly it was controlled by the Mughals, a Muslim empire. |  | 12 |
| 4144139522 | Ireland | Catholic country |  | 13 |
| 4144121660 | South East Asia (China. Korea, Japan) |  | 14 | |
| 4144123392 | Kashmir | Area of conflict between India and Pakistan. |  | 15 |
| 4144124944 | Mecca and Medina | Holy Cities of Islam | 16 | |
| 4144129807 | Northern Ireland | Protestant and part of the United Kingdom. Violence occurs within this area between Catholic and Protestants. |  | 17 |
| 4144141418 | Palestine | Area that is primarily Muslim and controlled by Israel |  | 18 |
| 4144142664 | Israel | The only Jewish state in the world |  | 19 |
| 4144143977 | Papal States | The last area to join a united Italy |  | 20 |
| 4144147060 | Prussia | Otto von Bismarck was prime minister of this area |  | 21 |
| 4144152853 | Rhineland, Austria, Sudenteland, Czechoslovakia | Area's captured by Nazi Germany | 22 | |
| 4144179997 | South Africa | Apartheid and Nelson Mandela |  | 23 |
| 4144181562 | Sudan |  | 24 | |
| 4144186516 | Suez Canal | Built to link the Mediterranean and Red Seas, it opened in 1869 The British later occupied Egypt because it gave them a shortcut to India. When Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes it in 1956, conflict ensues | 25 | |
| 4145991054 | Switzerland |  | 26 | |
| 4145997902 | Songhai | Ancient kingdom that traded salt for gold |  | 27 |
| 4145994374 | West and East Germany | Split by the Berlin Wall Two new countries created after WW II in Europe. One becomes a democracy and the other communist. | 28 |