People
Regional variations of a language.
What is a dialect?
Birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Italy?
Places where short grasses and shrubs are the dominant plant life.
What is scrubland?
Iceland is this type of landmass.
What is an Island?
Brought Islam with them to the Byzantine Empire.
Nickname given to the countries of Northern Europe.
What is the Nordic countries?
The most important body of water in Southern Europe.
What is the Mediterranean sea?
Mountain ranges separating the Italian peninsula from the rest of Europe.
What is the Alps?
After fighting a civil war in the 1930's these people did not fight in WWII.
Who are the Spanish of Spain?
Where the LEGO toy originated.
Where is Denmark?
Uses geothermal energy to heat it's capital city.
What is Iceland?
A period of artistic and intellectual activity.
What is the Renaissance?
What is European kingdoms broke away from the Catholic church making protestantism their official religion?
The opening to the Mediterranean that separates the Southern tip of Spain from Africa.
What is the strait of Gibraltar?
A system where the government uses tax money to provide a variety of services, such as health care and education, to all citizens.
What is welfare capitalism?
Powerful city-state in ancient Greece.
What is Sparta?
Explains how Greek Christians were treated under Ottoman rule.
What is Greek Christians had limited rights but could practice their religion?
The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The reason the climate in eastern Norway is colder than the climate in the western part of the country.
What is mountains reduce the flow of warmer air from the Norwegian current?
Infant mortality rate.
What is the rate at which infants die?