1. Stateless Nation Ring of Fire Botswana Islam Kim Jong Il Dumping Sturgeon Devolution Atlas Mountains OPEC Pakistan Seine River Aborigines Three Gorges Dam European Union Ireland Caste System Winter Monsoons Laos Money Multiplier Fundamentalism v. Securlarism North Atlantic Drift Marine West Coast

2. Shifts in Population Gigantomania Cash crops Winter Monsoon European Union Economic Shock Therapy Conflict Diamonds Terrace Farming Axis of Evil Kleptocracy Pirates Great Rift Valley Barter WTO Six-Day War Georgia CIS 1973 Energy Crisis Malay Peninsula Putin Failed State Syndrome Chokepoints Prayer Great Dividing Range

3. Artificial Borders Sahara Green Revolution Iran Taklimakin Desert Aral Sea Desertification Apartheid South Africa AIDS Kurds Israel Maori Penal Colony Indo-Gangetic Plain Saddam Hussein Nepal Horn of Africa Himalayas Communism Market Economy Christianity Dome of the Rock Perestroika

4. Germanic Siberia 1% Gap Nomads Basque Taiga Gao Tree Push Factors Feudalism Permafrost Yangtze River Big Bang Russian Cross Tariffs Chernozem Africanity Zionism Trade Barriers Eastern Orthodox Swahili Niger River Restrictive Pop. Policy Euro Bourgeoisie Epidemic

5. Berlin Conference Devolution Democracy Brahmaputra River Flooding Trade Surplus South China Sea Land Claims Cairo Strategy Palestinians Ethnonationalism Glasnost Deccan Plateau Continentality Sahel Commodity Sunni Oligarchs Judaism Mesopotamia Humid Continental Nelson Mandela West Bank Kalahari Desert

6. Shiites Kabul Beijing Wheat Balkanization Thailand Indo-Chinese Peninsula Buddhism Tibet Famine Overgrazing Yugoslavia Mecca Rub Al-Khali Desert Drought Bangladesh Arabs Congo Basin Polynesia Qatar Bhutan Rice Hollywood of India Slavic