Physical Geography
Largest mountain range in Europe
What is the Alps?
The hierarchy that organized political and social life in the Middle Ages.
What is feudalism?
The civilizations (2) which inspired Renaissance artists and thinkers.
What are Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome?
This country would go on to establish the largest empire in the New World.
What is Spain?
A time when thinkers answered questions about the world using logic and science instead of relying on religion and tradition.
What is the Enlightenment?
Peninsula made up of Spain and Portugal
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
Another term used to describe the Middle Ages.
What is 'medieval'?
The invention that helped spread Renaissance ideas around Europe.
What is the printing press?
Proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus and proven by Galileo, this is the theory that the Earth orbits the sun.
What is heliocentrism?
Production centers that emerged during the Industrial Revolution.
What are factories?
The largest sea in Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Who is the Pope?
Groups of Christians that formed churches separate from the Catholic Church.
What are Protestants?
Europeans were looking to create faster trading routes to these two countries.
The Industrial Revolution invention that helped power trains and other new machinery.
What is the steam engine?
Mountain range that runs along the border of France and Spain
What is the Pyrenees Mountains?
The event that marked the beginning of the Middles Ages.
What is the fall of the Roman Empire?
The German monk and written document who initiated the Reformation. (two part question)
Who is Martin Luther and his 95 Theses?
This discovery was made during the Scientific Revolution, which explains why the Moon orbits the Earth and humans remain grounded.
What is gravity?
The country where the Industrial Revolution originated.
European river that flows into the Black Sea
What is the Danube River?
The economic system of Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Manor System?
Slips of paper that Christians bought from the Catholic Church, thinking it would get them into heaven.
What are indulgences?
One of the new technologies that led to maritime exploration.
The two European monarchs executed in their country's respective revolutions.
Who are Charles I and Louis XVI?