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A col, dry region, covered with snow for mare than half the year.
What is a tundra?
100
Europe entered a long period of turmoil and warfare, government, law and trade broke down. This was known in history as the ....
What is the middle ages?
100
An economic system in which the central government owns farms, factories, and offices.
What is communism?
100
A city with its own government that was both a city and an independent state.
What is a city-state?
200
A vast, mostly level treeless plains that are covered in grass.
What is a steppe?
200
How did the Feudal system work?
a system in which land was owned by the King who then gave it to nobles in exchange for Knights (who offered protection) and servants who worked the land for food.
200
How do Western Europe and Russia differ in their use of natural resources?
Western Europe has developed its resources to become an important industrial region while Russia has not been able to fully develop its resources.
200
A government over which citizens exercise power.
What is democracy?
300
The area on the dry, sheltered side of a mountain, which receives little rainfall.
What is a rain shadow?
300
A period of time in Europe when people gained an interest in learning and art. It peaked in the 1500s.
What is the Renaissance?
300
How is water used as a natural resource in Western Europe?
Water is used for drinking, growing crops, and producing hydroelectric power.
300
Pride in one's country.
What is nationalism/
400
How have physical features affected life in Europe and Russia?
Much of the land in the Northwestern Highlands and the Central Uplands is not suitable for farming, so most farming is done in the Northern European Plain; frozen land and water in northern Russia limit settlement, industry, and movement; the rocky land in the Central Uplands favors grazing over farming.
400
How did the industrial revolution change the way that goods were made?
Instead of making goods by hand they are now made by machinery in factories and mass produced.
400
the power generated by water driven turbines.
What is Hydroelectric power?
400
What are major climate regions of Europe and Russia? Name 3
Humid Continental, semiarid, Marine West Coast, Subartic, Tundra
500
What are the natural vegetation regions of Europe and Russia?
What is forests, grassland, tundra, and Mediterranean.
500
Beggining in the 1600s many EUropean nations had followed a policy or practice of taking control of foreign territories as colonies in order to form an empire. Colonies provided raw materials, and supplied markets for European goods. Peaked in the late 1800s and is known as the Age of.....
What is Imperialism?
500
How has the European Union made it easier to buy and sell goods between countries?
No tariffs, passport, easy to ship goods, no hassle, cheaper....etc.