Physical Geography
This mountain range traditionally forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
Olives, grapes, and citrus fruits are strongly associated with this European climate region.
What is the Mediterranean climate?
This ancient civilization developed an early form of democracy in Athens.
Who were the Greeks?
These two resources most directly supported Europe's early industrial growth.
What are coal and iron ore?
During the Cold War, a country strongly controlled or influenced by the Soviet Union was known by this term.
What is a satellite nation?
This river travels through major industrial areas before reaching the North Sea through the Netherlands.
What is the Rhine River?
This climate is common in inland areas of Eastern and Northern Europe and produces cold winters and warm summers.
What is humid continental?
Roman expansion helped spread these cultural influences across Europe. Name two.
two.What are Latin-based languages, Roman law, engineering, and/or Christianity?
Europe's important petroleum deposits discussed in this unit are concentrated beneath this body of water.
What is the North Sea?
Eastern Europe's crossroads location contributed to this characteristic because many peoples, religions, and empires passed through the region.
What is cultural diversity?
This river travels east through several European countries before emptying into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube River?
These two geographic forces help make Western Europe milder than other places at similar latitudes.
What are the North Atlantic Drift and prevailing westerlies?
Trade wealth in these places allowed patrons to support Renaissance artists, scholars, and classical learning
What were the Italian city-states?
This event became a major push factor for Irish migration during the 1840s
What was the potato famine?
When Eastern European countries moved toward market economies, this increasingly replaced government control of businesses
What are private ownership and competition?
This broad area of flat, fertile land supports farming, transportation, industry, and dense settlement.
What is the Northern European Plain?
This hot wind blows from North Africa toward southern Europe
What is the sirocco?
This religious movement began when reformers challenged practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
What was the Reformation?
Identify two geographic/economic advantages that helped the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain.
What are coal, iron ore, colonial resources, markets, and/or sea routes?
This geographic/political term describes a country breaking apart into several smaller states that may remain hostile toward one another.
What is balkanization?
Explain one way Europe's mountains have influenced settlement or cultural development
What is: Mountains created barriers to movement, helping separate populations and contributing to distinct settlements/cultural regions?
Explain why acid rain in Europe can become an international rather than merely local environmental problem
What is: Prevailing winds can carry industrial pollutants across national boundaries before they fall as acid rain?
Spain and Portugal spread their languages and this religion into Latin America through overseas empires
What is Roman Catholicism?
Explain how nationalism can have two very different effects on European populations
What is: Nationalism can unite people around a common national identity but can also contribute to rivalry, separatism, or conflict?
Competing ethnic nationalism and attempts by Serbia to dominate contributed to the breakup of this European country
What was Yugoslavia?