Mediterranean Europe
Northern Europe
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
2 x's the points
100
Name the mountain range that separates France from Spain and Portugal.
What is the PYRENEES RANGE?
100
Northern Europe is made up of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Nordic countries. Name 2 of the 5 Nordic countries.
What are Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden or Finland?
100
Much of this country in Western Europe, whose capital city of Amsterdam is known for its legalization of the use of marijuana, lies below sea level and has shaped its cultural traditions of windmills, wooden shoes, and tulips. Name the country.
What is the NETHERLANDS?
100
The location of Eastern Europe between Western Europe and another continent has greatly affected its history. Name the continent to the east of Eastern Europe.
What is Asia?
100
What disease killed millions of Europe's population in the late Middle Ages?
What is Black or Bubonic Plague?
200
Name the predominant or most practiced religion in what was the Roman Empire.
What is CHRISTIANITY?
200
This empire, which is part of Northern Europe, used to be so large that is was said that, "The sun never sets on the ____________ Empire. Name the empire.
What is BRITISH?
200
France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg make up the region of Western Europe. Name the 2 countries that have the biggest economies of the six? BONUS if you can name the 3 countries that make up the Benelux economic union!
What are France and Germany? Bonus: Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.
200
Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe. There is a type of Christianity, which is an offshoot of Roman Catholicism, that began being practiced in the Southeastern Mediterranean/Eastern Europe near the 11th Century. Name the branch of Christianity.
What is Greek Orthodox?
200
The three MAJOR bodies of water that surround the Balkan Peninsula are The Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea and ____________. Name the 3rd MAJOR sea.
What is the Black Sea?
300
Ancient Rome's form of government was different from the democratic city-state of Athens, Greece. What form of government did Rome have a) Democracy b) Republic c) Monarchy d) Oligarch?
What is REPUBLIC?
300
The Nordic countries and the United Kingdom both had representative government centuries before the U.S. However, the United Kingdom (and Western Europe) greatly and positively influenced the US's economy through its __________________, which began in the 19th Century, and ahead of the US's. Fill in the blank. a)Socialism b) Industrial Revolution c) World War I
What is b)Industrial Revolution
300
The Romance languages, whose origins developed from Rome's Latin language, include Spanish, Italian and the language whose country is part of Western Europe. Name the language. (Reminder: France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Luxembourg are in the Western European region.)
What is French/France?
300
Because Eastern Europe is in a "crossroads" between the continents of Europe and Asia, there are several ethnicities found within the small region. Next to Christianity, this religion, which was spread through it during the Ottoman Turk reign of the 14th and 15th Centuries, is the most widely practiced in Eastern Europe. Name the second most widely practiced religion in Eastern Europe.
What is Muslim or Islamic?
300
What was the name of the Norman conqueror who conquered England in 1066 and from which country did he come?
Who is William the Conqueror and France?
400
The Iberian Peninsula consists of 2 countries with one being Spain. Name the 2nd country.
What is PORTUGAL?
400
"Scandinavia," which is another name for Nordic countries, has little ethnic diversity, has a very high standard of living, and has common ancestors with this much earlier group of raiders of Europe. Name the group of raiders, which is the same group of raiders who found their way to North America before Christopher Columbus.
What are THE VIKINGS?
400
One of the characteristics of a culture or even a region's culture is language. Name the characteristic that, beginning in the 16th Century and because of a man named Martin Luther, greatly and forever changed Western Europe and world. (Hint: think of an important characteristic of culture).
What is Religion? (Christianity was forever changed through the Protestant Reformation that began in Germany).
400
In the 1400's, Austria drove the Ottomans out of its country and another country to form a powerful state that ruled a large part of Eastern Europe until WW I. Name the second country or the powerful state that was formed.
What is Hungary or Austria-Hungary?
400
This document, known as the ________ __________, was signed by a British king in 1215 and established, for the first time, trial by jury and no taxes without representation within the British kingdom.
What is Magna Carta?
500
Name the religion that migrated or moved from Northern Africa into Spain and was ruled by people of this religion until the 15th Century.
What is MUSLIM?
500
During the 1840's, millions left this country for the United States during the "Great Potato Famine." (1) Name the country which people left and (2) did the famine have a Push or Pull effect?
What are (1) the Republic of Ireland and (2) Push?
500
Prior to the rise of the nation-state after the Middle Ages, this type of governmental and economic system found in Europe was predominantly created through grants of land to Barons, Knights and Villeins. Name the system.
What is Feudalism?
500
These Eastern European nations, which include Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, broke free from the Ottoman Empire in 1908. The nations are part of an area known as the _______________ Peninsula. Name the peninsula.
What is Balkan?
500
Colonization of the Western Hemisphere was first begun by the Europeans in the late 15th Century. However, as a result of the European Industrial Revolution that began in the 19th Century, Europeans pushed for greater colonization in the Eastern Hemisphere. Name the continent in the Eastern Hemisphere that Europeans scrambled to colonize in the 19th Century.
What is Africa?
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