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100
the movement of people from rural areas into the cities.
What is Urbanization?
100
One who flees his or her home for safety.
What is a refugee?
100
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?
100
a group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language.
What is language family?
100
local form of a language used in a particular place or by a certain group of people.
What is dialect?
200
the expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups.
What is ethnic cleansing?
200
group of people who share common ancestry, language, and religion customs, or a combination of such characteristics.
What is an ethnic group?
200
period of European history from about 500 AD to 1500.
What are the Middle Ages?
200
in ancient Greece, independent communities consisting of a city and the surrounding lands.
What is a city-state?
200
the mass killing of approx. 6 million Jews by German Nazis during WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
300
an organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods, services, and workers can move freely among member countries.
What is European Union?
300
society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production.
What is Communism?
300
A series of religious wars in which European Christians tried to retake Palestine from Muslim rule.
What are the Crusades?
300
a 300 year period of renewed interest in classical learning and the arts
What is the Renaissance?
300
artistic style emphasizing individual emotions that developed in Europe in the late 1700s and early 1800s as a reaction to industrialization.
What is Romanticism?
400
Power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
400
artistic style that developed in Europe in the late 1800s and tried to show the natural appearance of objects with dabs or strokes of color
What is Impressionism?
400
nation in which the government assumes major responsibility for people's welfare in areas such as education and health.
What is welfare state?
400
Artistic style portraying everyday life that developed in Europe during the mid 1800s
What is Realism?
400
a movement during the 1700s emphasizing the importance of reason and questioning traditions and values.
What is Enlightenment?
500
payment for damages
What are reparations?
500
an economic system in which business leaders use profits to expand their companies
What is Industrial Capitalism?
500
religious movement that began in Germany in the 1400s, leading to the establishment of Protestant churches.
What is Reformation?
500
The class you are in right now.
What is World Geography?
500
paved the way for Protestant and Roman Catholic communities to share political power in Northern Ireland.
What is the Good Friday Peace Agreement?
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