Land Geography
What makes Europe so generally warm for where it is based on latitude?
The warm ocean currents.
What is the sea between Sweden, Finland, and much of Northern Europe?
The Baltic sea.
What are the deep and narrow bays of Norway called?
Fjords.
Who started the Roman Empire?
Octavian (aka Augustus)
What deadly plague took place in the Middle Ages that killed about 1/3 of the population?
The bubonic (or black) plague.
A peninsula sticking off of Eurasia.
The two important rivers in Europe
The Danube River and the Rhine River
Why is trade so convenient for people in Europe?
The oceans, rivers and canals allow for easy trade throughout Europe.
Rome's original government was...
A republic.
What was the lowest level of the Middle Ages social class?
The serfs.
What major mountain range starts in Austria, goes through Switzerland and Italy, and ends in France?
The Alpine Mountains (Alps)
What major ocean is by Europe?
The Atlantic Ocean.
What specific type of waterway provided easy trade from other waterways to the cities in Europe?
The smaller cities that governed themselves in ancient Greece. (Ex. Athens or Sparta.)
City-states.
What was the average lifetime (in years) for a person living in the Middle Ages?
30 years.
The combined continent that Europe is part of, but culture separates the two continents.
Eurasia.
What sea is important to the trade for the Southern Europe countries?
The Mediterranean sea.
What time period was after the Middle Ages?
The Renaissance
Athens's original government...
A democracy
What church was very important to the Middle Ages?
The Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe and the Eastern Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe.
What invention in the Netherlands helped double the size of the country by pushing back the ocean to create more farmland?
Polders.
Europe has more than how many miles of coastline?
24,000 miles
The Western Uplands, the Northern European Plain, the Central Uplands and the Alps are all examples of what?
The four land regions of Europe!
What was the main religion of the Roman Empire?
Christianity (specifically the Roman Catholic Church)
Who was the leader of the German group (Franks) who united most of Europe during the Middle Ages?
Charlemange.