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Rocky Mountains - Wikipedia  The Rocky Mountains, commonly known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from the ..... Mountain men, primarily French, Spanish, and British, roamed the Rocky Mountains from 1720 to 1800 seeking mineral deposits and furs...
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Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia  In 1492 a Spanish-based transatlantic maritime expedition led by Christopher Columbus ... Columbus also requested he be made "Great Admiral of the Ocean Sea" ... Portugal was no longer interested in trailblazing a western trade route to Asia ..... 23 February, Columbus headed for Castilian Spain, but another storm forced...
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Morocco - CIEE  Strait of Gibraltar from Spain. About the size of California,. Morocco covers 172,413 square miles (446,550 square kilometers). ... southwest are two snowcapped mountain chains: the Middle. Atlas and ... French ruled until Morocco's independence in 1956, when a ... In 1975, Morocco occupied Western Sahara and forced.
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jeopardy/2407_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  WESTERN EUROPE | The Frisian Islands in this sea are divided among ... This 270-mile mountain chain once forced Spain & France to trade by sea | the...
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The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History  Humans would one day call these the Appalachian Mountains. ... were thrust miles into the sky as the Appalachians reached exalted heights, nearly as tall ... the Appalachians are, in truth, a trans-hemispheric chainolder than the Atlantic itself.1 ..... The accommodations forced upon Spain by Louisiana's French and Native...
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Pyrenees facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Pirineos, Fr. Pyrnes, mountain chain of SW Europe, 21,380 sq mi (55,374 sq km), ... The Franco-Spanish border, unchanged since the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659), ... The Pico de Aneto, Spain (11,168 ft/3,404 m), is the tallest peak; other peaks ... The northern slopes receive abundant rainfall while the southern slopes...
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Geology of the Pyrenees - Wikipedia  The Pyrenees form part of the huge alpine orogenic system. This 430 kilometre long, roughly east-west striking, intracontinental mountain chain divides France, ..... All the highest peaks of the Pyrenees are in the Axial Zone, hence the name. ... The Sierras Marginales (Spanish: Border Ranges) are the Sierras Aragonesas and...
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Objectives Taking Notes Target Reading Skill - Issaquah Connect  the sky and the sands, without the slightest trace of a road; and travelers find ... These routes stretched about 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers), all the way frorn China to the eastern Mediterranean Sea. For centuries ... valuable. One-a beautiful, Iightweight fabric called silk-was so ... Huang River and the Chang River. At more...
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Social Studies Ch.2 lesson 1-3 ;) Flashcards | Quizlet  STUDY ONLY .... Spanish explorers who got encouragement from Spanish rulers. ... The king appointed him governor of Florida and asked him to set up a colony .... AY) sailed up the St. Lawrence River, hoping it would lead to the Pacific. ... it to the Pacific, but he discovered a mountain peak that he named Mont-Royal,...
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Strait of Gibraltar | channel | Britannica.com  Strait of Gibraltar, Latin Fretum Herculeum, channel connecting the ... as the Rock of Gibraltar to the north and one of two peaks to the south: Mount ... arc formed by the Atlas Mountains of North Africa and the high plateau of Spain. ... voyagers and has continued to be vital to southern Europe, northern Africa, .... You Name It!
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Exploration | Article | World Book Student - World Book Online  They traveled across a land bridge that connected North America and Asia. ... But many others think that these early Pacific seafarers planned their voyages of ... During the 300's B.C., he sailed up the coasts of Spain and France and around the ..... Other explorers searched for a fabulous golden kingdom in South America,...
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Silk Road - Wikipedia  The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were ... Though silk was certainly the major trade item exported from China, many ... trade such as Marco Polo and Edward Gibbon never labelled any route as a .... With the Mediterranean linked to the Fergana Valley, the next step was to...
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Alps - Wikipedia  The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe ... Mont Blanc spans the FrenchItalian border, and at 4,810 m (15,781 ft) is the .... into separate plates during the Mesozoic Era and the Tethys sea developed ..... The new subclade has provisionally been named K1 for tzi.
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Chile, the Slender Success Story, Hopes to Fatten on US Trade Ties ...  Jul 25, 1995 ... Stretched out along 2,700 miles of South America's western coast and on average only 110 miles wide, Chile resembles all these things. What this country of 13 million people would like to be is a member of the North ... especially the giant US; and second, stepped-up, long-term foreign investment is...
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Strait of Gibraltar | channel | Britannica.com  Channel connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, lying ... south: Mount Hacho (held by Spain), near the city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in Morocco; ... Of great strategic and economic importance, the strait was used by many...
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Camino de Santiago - Stage 1  Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to ...  century church that had been built by the Navarran King Sancho VII, el Fuerte. In ... The Chemin de Compostela is more suitable during the winter months as the ... the pilgrim there are a number of cafs, hotels, a bakery, a bank and for those ...... years old thus making them the oldest Europeans and the discovery of the.
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Geography of Spain - Wikipedia  Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 85 percent) of the ... Spain also shares land boundaries with France and Andorra along the ... height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the ... The mountains that rise up above the Mediterranean Sea to form these...
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Iberian Peninsula - Wikipedia  The Iberian Peninsula /abrin pnnsjl/, also known as Iberia /abri/, .... Around 1100 BC, Phoenician merchants founded the trading colony of Gadir or .... The Iberian Peninsula extends from the southernmost extremity at Punta de .... One of these is the oceanic climate seen in the Atlantic coastal region...
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A Great Many Years  The American Alpine Club  I talked briefly about the first ascent of the 4000-foot volcano on Kiska, which I had .... and who had climbed all over the world from the Jungfrau to Popocatepetl,...
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Life in Spain: November 2007  Nov 26, 2007 ... Drive from Cartagena to Granada was about 3 hours. ... It is situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the convergence of two rivers, Darro and .... converted into a church in 16th century) and Museo Arqueologico at the ..... the last view of Alhambra: Suspiro del Moro (Pass of the Moor's Sigh)!
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Jeopary Questions page 1135 - "F" TROOP - TriviaBistro.com  EARLY MAN: Around 11,000 B.C. people in Greece sailed over 70 miles to Melos to get this volcanic glass for tools  COMMON BONDS: Months, eggs, dirty title...