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Physical Geography
Poland and the Baltics
Inland Eastern Europe
Balkan Countries
Miscellaneous
100
The area of flat and rolling fertile soil in the northern part of Eastern Europe
What is the Northern European Plain
100
The country in this region that remained a free country during the Cold War, but was forced to operate under a communist government.
What is Poland
100
This group of people originally settled the region, except for Hungary.
Who are the Slavs
100
The group that colonized the area of the northern Black Sea in the 600s BC
Who are the Greeks
100
The capital of Poland
What is Warsaw
200
This mountain range is south of the Northern European Plain and is an extension of the Alps.
What is the Carpathian Mountains
200
The religion practiced by most people in Poland and Lithuania
What is Roman Catholicism
200
This strong force took over the Slavic kingdoms and maintained the area until after World War I
What is Austria
200
The name of this region after the split of the Roman Empire
What is the Byzantine Empire
200
The name of the Viking group that settled and built Kiev
Who are the Rus
300
This is the peninsula on which Greece, Croatia, and Macedonia lie.
What is the Balkan Peninsula
300
The religion practiced by most people in Estonia and Latvia, that reflects their former rule by Sweden.
What is Lutheran
300
this group settled on the Hungarian Plain and greatly influenced the culture of Hungary.
Who are the Magyars.
300
The Ottoman Turks practiced this religion.
What is Islam
300
The capital of Hungary
What is Budapest
400
The sea that lies to the southeast of Eastern Europe and serves as an important trade route.
What is the Black Sea
400
The set of resources, like roads, airports, and factories, that a country needs in order to support economic activities.
What is infrastructure
400
The capital of the Ukraine
What is Kiev
400
The religion adopted in the eastern part of the former Roman Empire
What is Orthodox Christianity.
400
The alphabet used in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
What is the Cyrillic alphabet
500
The city where a faulty nuclear reactor exploded, leaving the city evacuated and abandoned.
What is Chernobyl
500
The famous Polish pianist and composer from the 1800s.
Who is Frederic Chopin
500
The name of the alliance that meet to discuss trade and immigration that affect former Soviet Republics.
What is the Commonwealth of Independent States.
500
Name 4 of the 9 countries if this region
What is Albania, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria
500
The year in which Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia
What is 1993