Name a country in the southern region of Europe
What is: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, or Albania
The U.N. stands for?
What is: The United Nations
Freedom of movement and economic support are benefits of membership in
What is: the European Union
Wartime changes and wide spread diseases caused major population shifts in Europe with a DECREASE or INCREASE in population growth
What is: decrease
The Silk Road trade route from China to Europe promoted cultural CONVERGENCE or DIVERGENCE?
What is: CONVERGENCE
Name a country in the Central Region of Europe (the breadbasket)
What is: Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, or Hungary
NATO and the United Nations were formed to promote what after the World Wars
What is: peace and cooperation to avoid war
The referendum or vote for Great Britain to leave the EU was in 2016 and was called this when they finally removed their membership in 2020.
What is: Brexit
Increases in population in Europe in recent years have occurred mostly in which region of Europe where the HDI is higher: WESTERN, CENTRAL, OR EASTERN?
What is: WESTERN
Spanish Inquisition was an attempt to force conversion of Muslims and Jews to this religion
What is: Catholicism
The Pyrenees mountains form the border between which two countries
What is: Spain and France
What international organization's three purposes are
1.Maintain peace
2.Develop friendly nations among nations
3. Help nations work together to improve lives of the poor, hunger, disease, illiteracy and encourage respect for each other's rights and freedoms.
What is: The U.N.
Europe's infrastructure can move goods and workers efficiently only in western europe. True or False?
What is: False
Wartime changes and wide spread diseases caused major population shifts in Europe with a DECREASE in population growth. This population activity will lead to more schools being built. True or False?
What is: False
The event in Former Yugoslavia in the 1980s and 1990s where Croatians and Albanians living in Serb-controlled areas were targeted and killed
What is the Bosnian Genocide
What country used a land modification system called "polders" to reclaim land for agriculture
What is: The Netherlands
Three organizations were created in order to facilitate relationship building,protection and progress among European nations
What is: E.U., NATO and the U.N.
European settlements were mostly founded along these physical features for easy trade
What is: rivers and coastlines
What is: collapse/fall of Soviet Union
the European Union unified the currency for member countries. This promotes the idea of one nation rather than a collection of nations. What is the name of that Currency?
What is: currency or "euro"
World War ll led directly to the cold war by allowing the Soviet Union to dominate which direction of Europe?
What is: Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain, democracy vs communism, U.S. vs Soviet Union are associated with era
What is: Cold War
Europe's "green initiatives" include alternative energies such as
What is: wind or hydroelectric
Concerns about immigration have caused some European countries to do this
What is: close borders/limit immigration
One example of Cultural Convergence in Europe is
What is: FOOD or SOCCER/FUTBOL or CLOTHING or LANGUAGE