Intro/Regional Atlas
The most widespread climate zone in Europe?
Maritime (wet year round, mild winters, cool summers)
These people were at the bottom of the Medieval social ladder?
Serfs
The European explorer who "discovered" the Americas for Spain?
Columbus
T or F: Prussia was not the largest state in Germany before unification
What is hyperinflation?
An economic crisis where prices skyrocket and currency becomes worthless
T or F: Europe is a region of many peninsulas, seas, and islands.
True
Pope Urban II called for these series of military campaigns?
The Crusades
How the Catholic church responded to the Reformation?
Counter-Reformation
The belief that a person's nation deserves greater loyalty than other groups a person belongs to?
Nationalism
What are the two World Wars called?
World War I
World War II
The Highest Mountain Range in the region?
The Alps
The system of government of the Medieval Era?
Feudalism
What does the word Renaissance means?
This general took power in France after the revolution?
Napolean
Holocaust
The Topic's Essential Question?
How Should We Handle Conflict
The heart of the medieval economy?
The Manor
The religious movement that gained momentum in the 1500s?
Reformation
This movement was a new way of thinking about the human world?
Enlightenment
What group of people did the Nazis blame for all their problems?
The Jews
The Continent Europe is attached to?
Asia
The name of the plague that started in 1347?
The Black Plague
Explorer who sailed around the world?
Magellan and crew
This revolution was a shift from human labor to machine labor?
Industrial Revolution
The period of confrontation after WWII between the US and Soviet Union?
Cold War