Vocab
Definition of 'smelting'
What is fusing tin and copper?
Period of discovery and exploration during the 1600's and 1700's
What is The Enlightenment?
He led the French Revolution
Who is Napoleon Bonapart?
The dominant religion in Europe
What is Christianity?
London Bridge was actually built here.
Where is London?
Definition of 'dike'
What is a wall to hold back water?
A time of scientific and technological advancement that led to goods being made in factories by machines instead of by hand.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
His efforts spurred the Protestant Reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
Two winter sports that are popular in Northern Europe
What are skating and skiing?
Moving masses of ice that carve Land into mountains and plateaus.
What are glaciers?
Definition of 'glaciation'
What is weathering or erosion caused by glaciers?
Period of renewed interest in classical Greek and Roman learning, leading to significant advancements in art, architecture, science, literature, and philosophy.
What is the Renaissance?
He made reforms in the USSR
Who Mikhail Gorbachev?
A sport that is popular in Spain
What is bullfighting?
The name of Land surrounded by water on at least three sides
What is a peninsula?
Definition of 'polder'
What is Land used for farming and settlements?
The year that the Russian Revolution took place
When was 1917?
The Macedonian king who extended his rule over Greece
Who is Alexander the Great?
What is the most popular European sport?
Soccer
The two mountain ranges that make up part of the boundary between Western and Southern Europe
What are the Alps and the Pyrenees?
Definition of 'fjord'
What is a water filled valley?
The year that Italian astronomer Galileo designed a telescope to observe the moon and planets
When is 1609?
He established the world's socialist state in Russia.
Who was Vladimir Lenin/Lenin?
The religion that 98% of people belong to in Greece
What is the Greek Orthodox Church?
River that starts in the Swiss Alps and empties into the North Sea
What is the Rhine River?