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What is a cold forest lands in northern regions called?
Taiga
Person from a wealthy and distinguished family in the Roman Republic
Patrician
Europe's longest River
Volga River
Name of the highest mountain in Greece
Mount Olympus
What is the name of the leader from Macedonia who conquered Greece and was the ruler of Europe's first great empire?
Alexander the Great
A person that has absolute rule over a country.
Dictator
Medieval way of life involving castles, kings, knights, lords, etc
Feudalism
European Country know as the "land of a thousand lakes"
Finland
What is the principle river of England and flows through London?
Thames River
What is the name of the early Roman Empire 200 years of peace?
Pax Romana
A common person of the Roman Republic
Plebeian
Revival of learning and studying of Scripture ; leading to the changing over from the Roman Catholic church to a Protestant church.
Protestant Reformation
Mountain Range dividing Asia and Europe
Urals
In what country is the Black Forest located?
Germany
What is the name of the time period when the Roman Empire fell until the end of the Protestant Reformation?
The Middle Ages (Dark) or medieval period
City-state in ancient Greece
Polis
Style of architecture art, and music that flourished through Europe from the 1500's to the 1700's
Baroque
River that flows through Paris, France
Seine River
What Independent state lies WITHIN Italy's borders?
The Vatican
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Italy (Florence)
serfs of Ancient Greece who were neither free nor slaves
helots
Revival of learning based on the philosophy of the ancient Greeks
Renaissance
Mountain range dividing Spain and France
Pyrenees
What were the two most influential early civilizations on the European Continent?
the ancient Greeks and Romans
Who invented the movable type printing press and what did they first print?
Johannes Gutenberg and the Bible