Physical geography
What body of water, that touches three continents, is responsible for the climate of Southern Europe?
Mediterranean Sea
what country makes up the Italian Peninsula?
Italy
Which French leader created a great empire, conquering most of Europe, only to be defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vatican City
what is the vast area of flat land that stretches from France to Russia and is the most fertile land for farming in the northern part of mainland Europe?
What body of water separates Morocco from Spain by an 8 mile gap. You can travel across this body of water between the two countries in about 30 minutes?
Strait of Gibraltar
what country makes up the Balkan Peninsula?
Greece
This document was the first to limit the powers of monarchs (England, 1215)
The Magna Carta (Great Charter)
What religion is most common in most Eastern European countries including Russia (historically part of the Byzantine Empire?)
Orthodox Christianity/the Orthodox Church
What do you call the biome with long cold winters and a few months of warm weather, dominated by coniferous evergreens, also called the Boreal forest in Russia?
Taiga
What is the weather like in a Mediterranean climate? (what are the summers and winters like?)
Summers: Hot/warm and dry
Winters: Mild and rainy/wet
what countries make up the Iberian Peninsula?
Spain and Portugal
Explain 2 achievements of the Greeks that were also achievements of the Romans
Ex: Science, Art, Architecture, Math, Politics, Philosophy, Mythology, Language, etc.
What was the original branch of Christianity spread by the Roman Empire?
Catholicism
Reflect upon one of the countries we learned about this Europe unit and tell me three things you learned about that one country. You may talk about physical geography, politics, economy, culture, religion, etc.
Answers may vary
What is the weather like most of the year in a Marine West Coast climate?
Mild (not too hot and not too cold) fairly wet
what countries make up Scandinavia? (5 of them)
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland
Who were the Bolsheviks and who did they overthrow in 1917? (Russia)
A radical Communist party that overthrew Czar/Tsar Nicholas II.
What is the newest branch of Christianity that was formed after the German, Catholic monk, Martin Luther, wrote his 95 theses about the problems of the Catholic Church?
Protestant
Where is Mr. K's hometown?
Mount Horeb, WI (population: ~7200)
Name the 4 mountain ranges associated with the following countries 1-Greece, 2-Italy, 1-Spain/France
what countries make up the British Isles? (5 of them)
What is the name of Germany's chief industrial and mining center, where French soldiers occupied this area when Germany stopped paying reparations after WWI. Also where the Battle of the Bulge was fought.
(Hint: think a physical geographic location that you had to label on your physical maps of Europe)
The Ruhr Valley
What two cities were the headquarters of the western and eastern parts of the Roman empire after it split in 400 CE.
West-Rome
East-Constantinople (modern day Istanbul)
What is Mr. K's favorite singer that he sings too all the time?
Frank Sinatra