Mediterranean
Western Europe
Northern Europe
Eastern Europe
Capitols
100
A political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands.
What is a city-state?
100
Countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
What are the Benelux countries?
100
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
What are the Nordic countries?
100
Eastern Europe is said to be this, or a place were various cultures cross paths.
What is a cultural crossroad?
100
Berlin.
What is Germany?
200
This building in ancient Athens, Greece, housed the god Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
200
A period when many Christians broke away from the Catholic Church and started Protestant churches.
What is the Reformation?
200
A representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed.
What is a parliament?
200
This term refers to the process of a region breaking up into small, mutually hostile units.
What is balkanization?
200
Amsterdam.
What is the Netherlands?
300
A time of renewed interest in learning and the arts that lasted from the 14th through 16th Centuries.
What is the Renaissance?
300
A political system in which powerful lords owned most of the land. They gave some land to nobles in exchange for military service by those nobles.
What is feudalism?
300
In the 1990s, the section of Scotland between Glasgow and Edinburgh became know as this, because it had so many computer chip companies.
What is Silicon Glen?
300
A economy in which industries make the goods consumers want to buy.
What is a market economy?
300
Helsinki.
What is Finland?
400
Beginning in 1096, European Christians launched a series of wars to take Palestine from the Muslims.
What is the Crusades?
400
The most famous physical symbol of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
"The sun never sets."
What was the British Empire?
400
Nations dominated by another country.
What are satellite nations?
400
Budapest.
What is Hungary?
500
A government in which citizens elect representatives to rule in their name.
What is a republic?
500
This famous German composer was almost entirely deaf.
What is Beethoven?
500
1066 conqueror of England.
Who is William the Conqueror of Normandy?
500
Discrimination against Jewish people.
What is anti-Semitism?
500
Bern.
What is Switzerland?
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