Europe HD
The first indirect democracy
What is Rome
Tsars built up the military to
What is expand their empire
The super language family spread throughout Asia and Africa
What is Indo-European
After the Roman civilization collapsed, this happened from the years AD 500 - AD 1500
What is the Middle Ages
This is a person who studies a language and its structure
What is a linguist
What were these conflicts called where the U.S. and Russia fought indirectly
What are WWI and WWII
The name of this person who brutally ruled the Soviet Union for 30+ years
Who is Joseph Stalin
A type of language spoken in a specific area
What is a dialect
This is a time of artistic and intellectual achievements in the 1300s and 1400s
What is the Renaissance
This is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
What is syntax
This is the branch of languages that English originated from
What is the Germanic branch
Mounted warriors from Asia who fought to keep their land are these people
Who are Mongols
Words commonly spoken by a people
What is a language
A time of religious changes, in the 1500s that lessened the power of the Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism, a new variety of Christianity.
What is the Reformation
This is the body of words used in a particular language
What is basic vocabulary
This was the name of a few Western European countries grew closer together economically and politically during the 1950s
What is the European Union (EU)
These are rulers in Russia who have power in an absolute monarchy over city-states
Who are princes
An original language with many languages that branch off of it
What is a proto-language/ancestor language
A time where people valued reason and questioned tradition during the 1600s and 1700s
What is the Enlightenment
This is a word that at least two languages share where it has similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning
What is a cognate
A united Europe in which goods, services and workers can move and live freely among member countries was this
The goal of the EU
This was the name of the collection of countries that was formed before Russia
What is Kievan Rus
A language that is not part of a language family
What is a language isolate
In the 1800s, this time period transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
What is the Industrial Revolution
These are words used in a speech community to identify relationships between individuals in a family
What are kinship terms