Vocab
What is the process of a state or region breaking into smaller, often hostile, political units along ethnic, cultural, or religious lines ?
What is Balkanization
What are 3 of the 5 countries?
What are Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweeden
What is the main mountain range?
What is The alps
Has several mountain ranges but they are all branches of what range? Hint 2 words and the first is the name of its people
What is swiss alps
What are the 3 peninsulas?
What are Iberian, Italian, Balkan
What is a port, city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export
What is Entrepot
What is a long steep sided glacial valley
What is a Fjord
What are strong north winds off the alps called that make the area so windy?
What are mistrals
It is a blank region, which is an area of great political instability.
What is shatter belt
What are the 2 main mountain ranges not the alps in this region?
What are Pyrenees and Apennines
What is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is Capitalism
What are 3 main types of Renewable energy that power this region
What are Geothermal, Wind, Hydrelectric
What opened up routes for trade and spread Christianity. Their were 4 main ones.
What is the crusades
What are power struggles that lead to ethnic cleansing of people. Their are 8 stages of it.
What is Genocide
What place is the birthplace of the Renaissance
What is Florence Italy
What is the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
What is Renaissance
Why is the area so windy??
What are the winds from the Gulf Stream
Was the birthplace of the what major time period of innovation?
What is Industrial revolution
What is the current economy in the region
What is market
What is Most famous city state and who lives there?
What is Vatican City, Pope
What is a period of major technological, socioeconomic, and cultural transformation that began in Great Britain in the late 18th century and spread to the rest of the world
What is Industrial revolution
These are known as the what countries? And what were their ancestors called?
What is Nordic and Vikings
70% of the workers in this region work in what industry?
What is the service industry
Has a history of long conflict, turmoil, and other country controlled. What is the most recent nation to control the area?
What is the Soviet Union
What is the cause of the Mediterranean climate of the region? Hint it is because of a geographical feature
What is the alps blocking the winds