These were roaming bands of traders, raiders, and travelers who originated in the current area of the Nordic Nations.
What are Vikings?
100
This continent was fought over by European countries looking to colonize it shortly before World War 1.
What is Africa?
100
This is the large body of water between Europe and Africa that touches Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
This vocabulary word means, "an embankment of earth and rock to hold back water."
What is a Dike?
100
This was Europe's most devastating war, resulting in an estimated 70 million deaths.
What is World War 2?
200
This is another word for a "Plant Disease" and affected Irish potatoes in the 1800s
What is a Blight?
200
This is Europe's largest mountain range.
What is the Alps?
200
These are the two main languages of Latin America, they are spoken there because the countries that brought them had colonized those areas.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
200
This vocabulary word means, "Payment for war debts."
What is Reparations?
200
This vocabulary word means, "to cut away the earth's surface to find valuable resources."
What is Strip Mining?
300
This was a "time period where 'work' began to be done by machines, instead of by animal/manpower" and it started in England
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
These are the 3 countries that make up the Benelux Countries.
What are Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg?
300
This 'time period of creative and intellectual renewal in Europe' became significant to Italy's history.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This vocabulary word means, "variations of a language that are unique to a region or community."
What is Dialects
300
This is the area/country that 'Western Thought' originated.
What is Greece?
400
These are the 4 regions (former nations) that are included in the United Kingdom.
What are Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England?
400
This country was split into two countries for 45 years following World War 2.
What is Germany?
400
These two countries share these similarities: 1) their major religion is Roman Catholicism, 2) their languages are similar, 3) they are both located on the same peninsula.
What are Spain and Portugal?
400
This vocabulary word means, "a narrow sea inlet carved by glaciers."
What is Fjords?
400
Because of its geography, the major languages spoken in this country are French, German, and Italian.
What is Switzerland?
500
These are the 5 countries that make up the Nordic Nations.
What are Iceland, Denmark, Norway, SWEDEN, and Finland?
500
This country uses Strip Mining to gain access to valuable resources.
What is Austria?
500
This group, described as an 'economic and political partnership between 28 different European countries' helped bail out Greece in 2009.
What is the European Union?
500
This vocabulary word means, "a theory that a country's power is based on its wealth."
What is Mercantilism?
500
People in this country create land for themselves by wide usage of dikes.