SOCIAL STUDIES 1105 ST

Larger countries are broken up into smaller countries because of _________, ____________, and cultural differences, thus having more independent countries in the world than ever before.

• population, economic
• race, education
• ethnic, religious
• military, government ideas

For the newly formed smaller countries, establishing a stable ______ is especially challenging.

• culture
• military
• economy
• government

In the late 1980s the cause of the downfall of many communist governments are the demand for greater ______ and the economic situation.

• taxes
• control
• income
• freedom

People are diverse in terms of language, ethnicity, religion, and culture in the _________ Peninsula.

• Crimean
• Iberian
• Antarctica
• Balkan

Two years after the communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown _________ became a democratic republic with a president and a two-house parliament.

• Serbia
• Bulgaria
• Macedonia
• Romania

The former ___________ was a country that had two alphabets, three religions, four languages, five nationalities, and six republics.

Montenegro and _________ were recognized as independent countries when the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was broken up.

• Kosovo
• Croatia
• Slovenia
• Serbia

The highest mountains on the Balkan Peninsula are the ________ Mountains.

• Dinaric
• Sudeten
• Sar
• Rhodope

In ___________ is where the first European civilization began.

• Russia
• Macedonia
• Greece
• Rome

The Greeks are known for their love of _________ and the arts, and they studied the sciences and developed a democratic government.

• geography
• astronomy
• philosophy
• geology