Middle Ages
Physical Features
Renaissance
World War II/Cold War
Culture and Economy
100
The lowest social class during the Middle Ages
What is serfs?
100
body of land surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
100
The inventor of the printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
German leader who rose to power after World War I and led Germany into World War II
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
Regional variation of a main language; Example- "y'all"
What is dialect?
200
Social system with a king, lords, vassals, and serfs
What is the Feudal system?
200
A body of water surrounded on three sides by land
What is a bay?
200
A way of painting that had the appearance of 3D; developed during the Renaissance
What is perspective?
200
Downturn in the world's economy between World War I and World War II; particularly difficult in Germany
What is the Great Depression?
200
The largest economy in the world
What is the European Union?
300
The plague that swept across Europe, killing around 1/3 of the population
What is the bubonic plague/Black Death?
300
Wide or deep enough to be traveled easily by boats and ships
What is navigable?
300
The German monk who led the Reformation against the Catholic church
Who is Martin Luther?
300
Mass murder of 6 million Jews before and during World War II
What is the Holocaust?
300
These are very cosmopolitan. They bring together many different cultures and influences.
What are European cites?
400
The institution that held power over many parts of the daily lives of people during the Middle Ages
What is the Catholic Church?
400
Below sea-level lands in the Netherlands created by building dikes and levys
What are polders?
400
The Byzantine empire fell and examples of Roman art and literature were spread across Europe.
What is a cause of the Renaissance?
400
The imaginary line that divided Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic Western Europe during the Cold War
What is the Iron Curtain?
400
Three countries, other than those in the European Union, who don't have tariffs when they trade with each other
What is the United States, Mexico, and Canada?
500
The military expeditions, led by the Roman Catholic Church, aimed at trying to reclaim the Holy Lands in the Middle East
What is the Crusades?
500
A vast lowland that stretches from France to Russia, in the northern part of mainland Europe
What is the Northern European Plain?
500
More copies of books became available and much more affordable and people started to write books in their everyday language (vernacular)
What are effects of the Renaissance?
500
The two countries that were involved in the tension of the Cold War after World War II
What is the United States and USSR/Soviet Union?
500
Percentage of people Europeans who live in urban areas
What is 70%?
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