People and Cruel Dictators
First czar of Russia, known for cruelty and being constantly at war.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
An Italian city that by 1000 C.E. emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade.
What is Venice?
a professional soldier hired by a foreign army.
What is a mercenary?
the type of climate found across Southern Europe.
What is Mediterranean climate?
German superhighway.
What is an Autobahn?
Austrian born cruel dictator of Germany, implement fascism and caused WWI and Holocaust.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Athens is the capital of this country in Southern Europe.
What is Greece?
a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges, it limited the power of the king.
What is the Magna Carta?
A long narrow inlet from the sea between cliffs or hills.
What is a fjord?
Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools
What is an infrastructure?
A nineteenth century Russian composer. His most celebrated works include several symphonies, including the Symphonie Pathetique, and three ballets, The Nutcraker, Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty.
Who is Peter Tchaikousky?
What three countries do the Benelux countries include?
What is Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg?
Eleventh-century fortress in the heart of Moscow that has been the historical seat of Russian state power.
What is Kremlin?
a mountain range in western Russia extending from the artic to the Caspian see.
What is the Ural Mountains
German Baroque composer.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This Activist conservative pop from Poland 1978-2005 who helped bring down European communism.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
What countries are a part of the Baltics?
What is Estonia, Latvia, and Lathuania?
What are the three types of Roman columns?
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
a region of evergreen, coniferous forest below the arctic and subarctic tundra regions.
What is Taiga?
A Gothic cathedral in Paris, France, it was begun in 1200 and completed around 1345. It was destroyed by riots and wars, and rebuilt in the 1700's, then being renovated several times afterwards, most recently due to fire
What is the Notre Dame Cathredral?
Siberian leader who initiated a policy of ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims, he was later charged with war crimes by the UN International World Count.
Who is Slobadon Milosevic
the region of southeastern Europe now occupied by Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the European part of Turkey, and the former republics of Yugoslavia.
What is the Balkans?
nuclear power plant in Russia that had an explosion in 1986 and released radioactive materials into the air.
What was Chernobyl?
This mountain range divides Spain from France.
What is the Pyrenees?
Peter Tchaikousky was a Russian composer who composed what three ballets?
What is The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake?