Vocabulary
long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled by seawater
What is a fjord?
Most of Europe is relatively close to ______________.
What is a seacoast?
Europe's population is concentrated mostly here.
What are urban areas?
This made Europe the birthplace of modern industry.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Wet or dry airborne acids that fall to the Earth.
What is acid deposition
large bank of earth and stone that holds back water.
What are dikes?
25% of the Netherlands is below sea level, they built these to hold back water.
What are dikes?
One of the most powerful Empires to ever rule, The Holy Roman Empire, lasted for many years. How long did it last?
What is nearly 1,000 years?
More Europeans earn a living doing this, than in any other economic activity
What is farming?
Farming method used in dry regions in which land is plowed and planted deeply to hold water in the soil
fine, yellow-brown topsoil made up of particles of silt and clay, usually carried by the wind.
What is a loess?
These are the regions of Europe.
What is Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the British Isles?
Ancient Celtic western Europe was conquered by this Empire.
Who is The Roman Empire?
This helped spark early industrialization.
What is coal and iron ore.
Person actively concerned with the quality and protection of the environment.
What is an environmentalists.
Society based on equality in which workers control industrial production.
What is Communism?
Spain and Portugal make up the Peninsula.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
Migration patterns of Europe that are dominate.
What is moving from rural to urban areas.
This event caused Europe to move toward unity to rebuild their economies.
What is WW2
Organization in which farmers share in growing and selling farm products.
What is farm cooperative?
Series of religious wars in which European Christians tried to retake Palestine from Muslim rule
What are Crusades?
Fjords are the most common feature to this area.
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
Although some may say the crusades were an evil act, This was the actual purpose of these wars.
What is to win back Palestine, the birth place of Christianity, from Muslim rule?
In 1992, the EU was formally established when this was signed.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
in medieval Europe and Japan, a system of government in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty.
What is Feudalism?