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Powder keg of Europe

  1. Balkans

  2. Venice

  3. Rome

  4. Scotland
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Explanation

The Balkans were called the 'powder keg of Europe' because the region had many ethnic nationalist tensions that could explode into war. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo (Bosnia, in the Balkans) triggered World War I.

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