Chapter 8 Important Topics

Berlin Conference

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Caption: : Red: Italian, Green/yellow: French, Blue: Spanish, Orange: British, Purple: German, Green: Portuguese, Yellow: Belgium

1884 divided Africa into colonies controlled by different European countries set boundaries of what land belonged to whom British and French got most of the power of the continent

Peace of Westphalia

1648: beginning of the modern states system among the princes of the Holy Roman Empire and a few neighboring states treaties ended the Thirty Years' War, contained new languages, laid the foundation for the Europe that was composed of mutually  recognized territorial states enabled religious coexistance Fought largely in Germany

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Caption: : division or Europe after the treaty was signed

Merchcantilism

associated with the promotion of commercialism or trade a protectionist of European states during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries the acquisition of of gold and silver and the maintenance 

Capitalism

Israel and Palestine Conflict

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement Supranationalism  

EU (European Union)

Supranationalism

Benelux

Nunavut

Kurds/Palestinians/Romans/Hawaiians