Key Terms
History and Government
Population Patterns
Cultures and Lifestyles
Fun Facts
100
Mass killings of more than 6 million European Jews and others by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
100
Official religion of the Roman Empire in late A.D. 300s.
What is Christianity?
100
160 in Europe.
What are ethnic groups?
100
Number of different languages in Europe.
What is 50?
100
City divided into east and west after the end of WWII
What is Berlin?
200
Period between ancient and modern times.
What is the Middle Ages?
200
Laid the foundations of Western civilizations.
Who are the Greeks?
200
Closely related to physical geography.
What is population distribution?
200
Almost all of Europe's languages and dialects.
What is Indo-European?
200
Collapsed in 1989.
What is the Soviet Union?
300
People who flee to a foreign country for safety.
What is a refugee?
300
300 year period of discovery and learning.
What is the Renaissance?
300
Transformed Europe from a rural society to and urban society.
What is the Industrialization Revolution?
300
Place of hostility between Catholics and Protestants.
What is Northern Ireland?
300
Beginning of the French Revolution.
What is Bastille Day?
400
Group of related languages that developed from an earlier language.
What is a language family?
400
Lessened the power of the Roman Catholic church and led to Protestantism.
What is the Reformation?
400
Challenges faced by Europe's largest cities.
What is overcrowding and pollution?
400
Spanish abstract artist.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
400
Expelled rival ethnic groups from Kosovo in 1990s.
Who are Serbs?
500
Paved the way for Protestant and Roman Catholic communities to share political power in Northern Ireland.
What is the Good Friday Peace Agreement?
500
Torn down in 1990.
What is the Berlin Wall?
500
Value importance of the past and the cultural achievements of their ancestors.
What are sources of unity in Europe?
500
Higher standard of living than southern and eastern Europe.
What is western Europe?
500
Power struggle between communist and non-communist world.
What is the Cold War?
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