Vocab
This was an age of exploration and artistic acheivement in Europe
What is the Renaissance?
The United Kingdom includes these 4 countries.
What are England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland?
This group of early peoples lived in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Who are the Basque?
The most populated country in southern Europe
What is Italy?
The largest and most populous country in eastern Europe
What is Ukraine?
The use of business profits to expand that business
What is industrial capitalism?
There are approximately this many ethnic groups that live in Europe today.
What is 160?
This city is in Belgium and is the administration center for the European Union
What is Brussels?
A unique city known for its canals
What is Venice?
Language family that includes Polish and Czech
What is Slavic?
What are reparations?
What is London?
An artistic movement in the mid-1800's that accurately depicted everyday life
What is realism?
This empire's capital was Constantinople
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This empire ruled the Balkan Peninsula for nearly 500 years
What is the Ottoman Empire?
A system in which monarchs or lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
What is feudalism?
The Industrial Revolutions transformed manufacturing by replacing humans with machines beginning in the late __________.
*hint: what year?
What is the 1900's?
This country was divided after WWII
What is Germany?
This is what the ancient Greek city-states had in common
What is language and culture?
This country fractured along ethnic lines sparking violence in the 1990's
What is Yugoslavia?
What is a guest worker?
The goal of this organization is a united Europe in which goods, services, and workers can move freely among member countries.
What is the European Union?
A series of religious wars to win Palestine
What are the crusades?
This group invaded Spain in AD711 and held it for over 700 years
Who are the Muslim Moors?
The expelling or killing of rival ethnic groups
What is ethnic cleansing?