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Appalachian_Mountains

While exploring inland along the northern coast of Florida in 1528, the members of the Narváez expedition, including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, found a Native American village near present-day Tallahassee, Florida whose name they transcribed as Apalchen or Apalachen [a.paˈla.tʃɛn]. The name was soon altered by the Spanish to Apalachee and used as a name for the tribe and region spreading well inland to the north. Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition first entered Apalachee territory on June 15, 1528, and applied the name. Now spelled "Appalachian," it is the fourth-oldest surviving European place-name in the US.

Question: What area did the Narvaez expedition explore?
Answer: northern coast of Florida

Question: When did the Narvaez expedition explore Florida?
Answer: 1528

Question: What did they transcribe Florida's name as? 
Answer: Apalchen

Question: What was the name eventually used for?
Answer: as a name for the tribe and region spreading well inland to the north
Appalachian_Mountains

In addition to the true folded mountains, known as the ridge and valley province, the area of dissected plateau to the north and west of the mountains is usually grouped with the Appalachians. This includes the Catskill Mountains of southeastern New York, the Poconos in Pennsylvania, and the Allegheny Plateau of southwestern New York, western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia. This same plateau is known as the Cumberland Plateau in southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and northern Alabama.

Question: What area is usually grouped with the Appalachians? 
Answer: dissected plateau to the north and west of the mountains

Question: What mountains does that region include?
Answer: Catskill Mountains

Question: What is the plateau known as in West Virginia?
Answer: Cumberland Plateau
Appalachian_Mountains

The Appalachian belt includes, with the ranges enumerated above, the plateaus sloping southward to the Atlantic Ocean in New England, and south-eastward to the border of the coastal plain through the central and southern Atlantic states; and on the north-west, the Allegheny and Cumberland plateaus declining toward the Great Lakes and the interior plains. A remarkable feature of the belt is the longitudinal chain of broad valleys, including The Great Appalachian Valley, which in the southerly sections divides the mountain system into two unequal portions, but in the northernmost lies west of all the ranges possessing typical Appalachian features, and separates them from the Adirondack group. The mountain system has no axis of dominating altitudes, but in every portion the summits rise to rather uniform heights, and, especially in the central section, the various ridges and intermontane valleys have the same trend as the system itself. None of the summits reaches the region of perpetual snow.

Question: What does the Great Appalachian Valley do?
Answer: divides the mountain system into two unequal portions

Question: What is common among all the mountains in the range?
Answer: has no axis of dominating altitudes, but in every portion the summits rise to rather uniform heights

Question: What is the climate like on the summits?
Answer: None of the summits reaches the region of perpetual snow.
Appalachian_Mountains

Mountains of the Long Range in Newfoundland reach heights of nearly 3,000 ft (900 m). In the Chic-Choc and Notre Dame mountain ranges in Quebec, the higher summits rise to about 4,000 ft (1,200 m) elevation. Isolated peaks and small ranges in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick vary from 1,000 to 2,700 ft (300 to 800 m). In Maine several peaks exceed 4,000 ft (1,200 m), including Mount Katahdin at 5,267 feet (1,605 m). In New Hampshire, many summits rise above 5,000 ft (1,500 m), including Mount Washington in the White Mountains at 6,288 ft (1,917 m), Adams at 5,771 ft (1,759 m), Jefferson at 5,712 ft (1,741 m), Monroe at 5,380 ft (1,640 m), Madison at 5,367 ft (1,636 m), Lafayette at 5,249 feet (1,600 m), and Lincoln at 5,089 ft (1,551 m). In the Green Mountains the highest point, Mt. Mansfield, is 4,393 ft (1,339 m) in elevation; others include Killington Peak at 4,226 ft (1,288 m), Camel's Hump at 4,083 ft (1,244 m), Mt. Abraham at 4,006 ft (1,221 m), and a number of other heights exceeding 3,000 ft (900 m).

Question: How tall are the mountains in Newfoundland?
Answer: 3,000 ft

Question: How tall are the mountains in Nova Scotia?
Answer: vary from 1,000 to 2,700 ft

Question: How tall are the mountains in Maine?
Answer: exceed 4,000 ft

Question: How tall are the mountains in New Hampshire?
Answer: many summits rise above 5,000 ft
Appalachian_Mountains

In Pennsylvania, there are over sixty summits that rise over 2,500 ft (800 m); the summits of Mount Davis and Blue Knob rise over 3,000 ft (900 m). In Maryland, Eagle Rock and Dans Mountain are conspicuous points reaching 3,162 ft (964 m) and 2,882 ft (878 m) respectively. On the same side of the Great Valley, south of the Potomac, are the Pinnacle 3,007 feet (917 m) and Pidgeon Roost 3,400 ft (1,000 m). In West Virginia, more than 150 peaks rise above 4,000 ft (1,200 m), including Spruce Knob 4,863 ft (1,482 m), the highest point in the Allegheny Mountains. A number of other points in the state rise above 4,800 ft (1,500 m). Snowshoe Mountain at Thorny Flat 4,848 ft (1,478 m) and Bald Knob 4,842 ft (1,476 m) are among the more notable peaks in West Virginia.

Question: How many summits in PA are over 2,500 ft? 
Answer: over sixty summits

Question: How tall are the summits of Mount Davis and Blue Knob?
Answer: over 3,000 ft

Question: How tall are Eagle Rock and Dans Mountain?
Answer: 3,162 ft (964 m) and 2,882 ft

Question: How tall is the Pinnacle?
Answer: 3,007 feet

Question: How many peaks are over 4,000 feet in WV?
Answer: more than 150 peaks
Appalachian_Mountains

The Blue Ridge Mountains, rising in southern Pennsylvania and there known as South Mountain, attain elevations of about 2,000 ft (600 m) in that state. South Mountain achieves its highest point just below the Mason-Dixon line in Maryland at Quirauk Mountain 2,145 ft (654 m) and then diminishes in height southward to the Potomac River. Once in Virginia the Blue Ridge again reaches 2,000 ft (600 m) and higher. In the Virginia Blue Ridge, the following are some of the highest peaks north of the Roanoke River: Stony Man 4,031 ft (1,229 m), Hawksbill Mountain 4,066 ft (1,239 m), Apple Orchard Mountain 4,225 ft (1,288 m) and Peaks of Otter 4,001 and 3,875 ft (1,220 and 1,181 m). South of the Roanoke River, along the Blue Ridge, are Virginia's highest peaks including Whitetop Mountain 5,520 ft (1,680 m) and Mount Rogers 5,729 ft (1,746 m), the highest point in the Commonwealth.

Question: Where do the Blue Ridge Mountains begin?
Answer: southern Pennsylvania

Question: What are the typical elevations of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Answer: 2,000 ft

Question: How tall is Quirauk Mountain?
Answer: 2,145 ft

Question: How tall are the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia?
Answer: 2,000 ft

Question: What is the tallest Appalachian mountain in Virginia?
Answer: Mount Rogers
Appalachian_Mountains

Before the French and Indian War, the Appalachian Mountains laid on the indeterminate boundary between Britain's colonies along the Atlantic and French areas centered in the Mississippi basin. After the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement for Great Britain's thirteen original colonies in North America to east of the summit line of the mountains (except in the northern regions where the Great Lakes formed the boundary). Although the line was adjusted several times to take frontier settlements into account and was impossible to enforce as law, it was strongly resented by backcountry settlers throughout the Appalachians. The Proclamation Line can be seen as one of the grievances which led to the American Revolutionary War. Many frontier settlers held that the defeat of the French opened the land west of the mountains to English settlement, only to find settlement barred by the British King's proclamation. The backcountry settlers who fought in the Illinois campaign of George Rogers Clark were motivated to secure their settlement of Kentucky.

Question: Where did the mountains lay before the French and Indian War?
Answer: on the indeterminate boundary between Britain's colonies along the Atlantic and French areas centered in the Mississippi basin

Question: What happened after the French and Indian War?
Answer: the Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement for Great Britain's thirteen original colonies in North America to east of the summit line of the mountains

Question: What was the general opinion of the law?
Answer: it was strongly resented by backcountry settlers throughout the Appalachians

Question: What did the law likely lead to?
Answer: the American Revolutionary War

Question: What did the backcountry settlers want to secure?
Answer: their settlement of Kentucky
Appalachian_Mountains

Animals that characterize the Appalachian forests include five species of tree squirrels. The most commonly seen is the low to moderate elevation eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Occupying similar habitat is the slightly larger fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) and the much smaller southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans). More characteristic of cooler northern and high elevation habitat is the red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), whereas the Appalachian northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus), which closely resembles the southern flying squirrel, is confined to northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests.

Question: How many species of tree squirrel are commonly found in the range?
Answer: five species

Question: What is the most commonly seen species?
Answer: gray squirrel

Question: What does the squirrel share its habitat with?
Answer: larger fox squirrel

Question: What is found more in the northern portions?
Answer: red squirrel

Question: Which species is commonly found more in spruce-fir forests?
Answer: Appalachian northern flying squirrel
Appalachian_Mountains

Dryer and rockier uplands and ridges are occupied by oak-chestnut type forests dominated by a variety of oaks (Quercus spp.), hickories (Carya spp.) and, in the past, by the American chestnut (Castanea dentata). The American chestnut was virtually eliminated as a canopy species by the introduced fungal chestnut blight (Cryphonectaria parasitica), but lives on as sapling-sized sprouts that originate from roots, which are not killed by the fungus. In present-day forest canopies chestnut has been largely replaced by oaks.

Question: What trees are typically found in the dryer portions?
Answer: oak

Question: What species of tree was pretty much eliminated?
Answer: The American chestnut

Question: What does the tree live on?
Answer: sapling-sized sprouts

Question: What trees replaced chestnut trees?
Answer: oaks
Appalachian_Mountains

The oak forests of the southern and central Appalachians consist largely of black, northern red, white, chestnut and scarlet oaks (Quercus velutina, Q. rubra, Q. alba, Q. prinus and Q. coccinea) and hickories, such as the pignut (Carya glabra) in particular. The richest forests, which grade into mesic types, usually in coves and on gentle slopes, have dominantly white and northern red oaks, while the driest sites are dominated by chestnut oak, or sometimes by scarlet or northern red oaks. In the northern Appalachians the oaks, except for white and northern red, drop out, while the latter extends farthest north.

Question: What kind of oaks are in the central and southern portions?
Answer: black, northern red, white, chestnut and scarlet oaks

Question: What other tree is common there?
Answer: hickories

Question: What trees are located in drier portions?
Answer: chestnut oak
East_Prussia

East Prussia enclosed the bulk of the ancestral lands of the Baltic Old Prussians. During the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading Teutonic Knights. The indigenous Balts who survived the conquest were gradually converted to Christianity. Because of Germanization and colonisation over the following centuries, Germans became the dominant ethnic group, while Poles and Lithuanians formed minorities. From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 it became a fief of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1525, with the Prussian Homage, the province became the Duchy of Prussia. The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century.

Question: Who defeated the native Prussians during the 13 century?
Answer: Teutonic Knights

Question: What other groups during this period for form minorities?
Answer: Poles and Lithuanians

Question: The Balts were gradually converted into which religion?
Answer: Christianity

Question: Which ethnic group become dominant following the 13 century just a few hundred years later?
Answer: Germans

Question: Around when did the Old Prussian language become extinct?
Answer: 17th or early 18th century
East_Prussia

Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy Roman Empire, the prince-electors of Brandenburg were able to proclaim themselves King of Prussia beginning in 1701. After the annexation of most of western Royal Prussia in the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, eastern (ducal) Prussia was connected by land with the rest of the Prussian state and was reorganized as a province the following year (1773). Between 1829 and 1878, the Province of East Prussia was joined with West Prussia to form the Province of Prussia.

Question: Why were the prince electors able to proclaim themselves King of Prussia?
Answer: Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy Roman Empire

Question: In what year were the prince electors elect them selves as King?
Answer: 1701

Question: What time period did East Prussia and West Prussia join to become Prussia?
Answer: Prussia
East_Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia became the leading state of the German Empire after its creation in 1871. However, the Treaty of Versailles following World War I granted West Prussia to Poland and made East Prussia an exclave of Weimar Germany (the new Polish Corridor separating East Prussia from the rest of Germany), while the Memel Territory was detached and was annexed by Lithuania in 1923. Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, war-torn East Prussia was divided at Joseph Stalin's insistence between the Soviet Union (the Kaliningrad Oblast in the Russian SFSR and the constituent counties of the Klaipėda Region in the Lithuanian SSR) and the People's Republic of Poland (the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship). The capital city Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946. The German population of the province was largely evacuated during the war or expelled shortly thereafter in the expulsion of Germans after World War II. An estimated 300,000 (around one fifth of the population) died either in war time bombings raids or in the battles to defend the province.[citation needed]

Question: What year did the Kingdom of Prussia become the leading state of the German Empire?
Answer: 1871

Question: What well known treaty would eventually would grant West Prussia to Poland?
Answer: Versailles

Question: What year did the Nazi's fall in World War II?
Answer: 1945

Question: How many died trying to defend the province in Kaliningrad?
Answer: 300,000
East_Prussia

Upon the invitation of Duke Konrad I of Masovia, the Teutonic Knights took possession of Prussia in the 13th century and created a monastic state to administer the conquered Old Prussians. Local Old-Prussian (north) and Polish (south) toponyms were gradually Germanised. The Knights' expansionist policies, including occupation of Polish Pomerania with Gdańsk/Danzig and western Lithuania, brought them into conflict with the Kingdom of Poland and embroiled them in several wars, culminating in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War, whereby the united armies of Poland and Lithuania, defeated the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) in 1410. Its defeat was formalised in the Second Treaty of Thorn in 1466 ending the Thirteen Years' War, and leaving the former Polish region Pomerania/Pomerelia under Polish control. Together with Warmia it formed the province of Royal Prussia. Eastern Prussia remained under the Knights, but as a fief of Poland. 1466 and 1525 arrangements by kings of Poland were not verified by the Holy Roman Empire as well as the previous gains of the Teutonic Knights were not verified.

Question: Which group took possession of Prussia in the 13th century?
Answer: Teutonic Knights

Question: Which two areas were slowly Germanized during the 13th century?
Answer: Old-Prussian (north) and Polish (south) toponyms

Question: What did the knights of expansionist polices eventually lead to?
Answer: several wars

Question: What year was the Second Treaty of Thorn enacted?
Answer: 1466
East_Prussia

The Teutonic Order lost eastern Prussia when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order in 1525. Albert established himself as the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia and a vassal of the Polish crown by the Prussian Homage. Walter von Cronberg, the next Grand Master, was enfeoffed with the title to Prussia after the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, but the Order never regained possession of the territory. In 1569 the Hohenzollern prince-electors of the Margraviate of Brandenburg became co-regents with Albert's son, the feeble-minded Albert Frederick.

Question: Who converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order?
Answer: Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Question: In what year did The Teutonic Order lose Eastern Prussia?
Answer: 1525

Question: What did Albert establish himself as?
Answer: first duke of the Duchy of Prussia
East_Prussia

The Administrator of Prussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order Maximilian III, son of emperor Maximilian II died in 1618. When Maximilian died, Albert's line died out, and the Duchy of Prussia passed to the Electors of Brandenburg, forming Brandenburg-Prussia. Taking advantage of the Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655, and instead of fulfilling his vassal's duties towards the Polish Kingdom, by joining forces with the Swedes and subsequent treaties of Wehlau, Labiau, and Oliva, Elector and Duke Frederick William succeeded in revoking king of Poland's sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia in 1660. The absolutist elector also subdued the noble estates of Prussia.

Question: In what year did Maximilian III die?
Answer: 1618

Question: What happened as a result of Maximilian's death?
Answer: Albert's line died out

Question: Who revoked the King of Poland's sovereignty over Prussia in 1660?
Answer: Frederick William
East_Prussia

Although Brandenburg was a part of the Holy Roman Empire, the Prussian lands were not within the Holy Roman Empire and were with the administration by the Teutonic Order grandmasters under jurisdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperor Leopold I in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III was allowed to crown himself "King in Prussia" in 1701. The new kingdom ruled by the Hohenzollern dynasty became known as the Kingdom of Prussia. The designation "Kingdom of Prussia" was gradually applied to the various lands of Brandenburg-Prussia. To differentiate from the larger entity, the former Duchy of Prussia became known as Altpreußen ("Old Prussia"), the province of Prussia, or "East Prussia".

Question: Brandenburg was part of what dominating force?
Answer: Holy Roman Empire

Question: What jurisdiction was the Prussian lands under?
Answer: Teutonic Order

Question: Who elected there self as King of Prussia in 1701?
Answer: Frederick III

Question: What did the former Duchy of Prussia become known as?
Answer: Altpreußen ("Old Prussia")
East_Prussia

In the 1772 First Partition of Poland, the Prussian king Frederick the Great annexed neighboring Royal Prussia, i.e. the Polish voivodeships of Pomerania (Gdańsk Pomerania or Pomerelia), Malbork, Chełmno and the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, thereby bridging the "Polish Corridor" between his Prussian and Farther Pomeranian lands and cutting remaining Poland off the Baltic Coast. The territory of Warmia was incorporated into the lands of former Ducal Prussia, which, by administrative deed of 31 January 1773 were named East Prussia. The former Polish Pomerelian lands beyond the Vistula River together with Malbork and Chełmno Land formed the Province of West Prussia with its capital at Marienwerder (Kwidzyn). The Polish Partition Sejm ratified the cession on 30 September 1773, whereafter Frederick officially went on to call himself a King "of" Prussia.

Question: In what year was Royal Prussia annexed?
Answer: 1772

Question: In what year was the territory of Warmia incorporated? 
Answer: 31 January 1773

Question: What was ratified in 1773 in Prussia?
Answer: The Polish Partition Sejm
East_Prussia

After the disastrous defeat of the Prussian Army at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt in 1806, Napoleon occupied Berlin and had the officials of the Prussian General Directory swear an oath of allegiance to him, while King Frederick William III and his consort Louise fled via Königsberg and the Curonian Spit to Memel. The French troops immediately took up pursuit but were delayed in the Battle of Eylau on 9 February 1807 by an East Prussian contingent under General Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq. Napoleon had to stay at the Finckenstein Palace, but in May, after a siege of 75 days, his troops led by Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre were able to capture the city Danzig, which had been tenaciously defended by General Count Friedrich Adolf von Kalkreuth. On 14 June, Napoleon ended the War of the Fourth Coalition with his victory at the Battle of Friedland. Frederick William and Queen Louise met with Napoleon for peace negotiations, and on 9 July the Prussian king signed the Treaty of Tilsit.

Question: What defeat led to Prussia having to swear its allegiance to Napoleon?
Answer: Battle of Jena-Auerstedt

Question: What city did King Frederick William use to flee Prussia?
Answer: Königsberg

Question: What year did Napoleon end of the War of the Fourth Coalition?
Answer: 1807
East_Prussia

The succeeding Prussian reforms instigated by Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and Karl August von Hardenberg included the implementation of an Oberlandesgericht appellation court at Königsberg, a municipal corporation, economic freedom as well as emancipation of the serfs and Jews. In the course of the Prussian restoration by the 1815 Congress of Vienna, the East Prussian territories were re-arranged in the Regierungsbezirke of Gumbinnen and Königsberg. From 1905, the southern districts of East Prussia formed the separate Regierungsbezirk of Allenstein. East and West Prussia were first united in personal union in 1824, and then merged in a real union in 1829 to form the Province of Prussia. The united province was again split into separate East and West Prussian provinces in 1878.

Question: Who instigated the Prussian reforms?
Answer: Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and Karl August von Hardenberg

Question: What was included in the reform?
Answer: emancipation of the serfs and Jews

Question: In what year was East and West Prussia first united?
Answer: 1824

Question: When did East and West Prussia split again?
Answer: 1878