Physical Geography
This mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
About 8,000 years ago, people in northwestern Europe began doing this to the land, using cereals and animals.
What is farming?
This process is when a society changes from farming to producing goods in large factories.
What is industrialization?
This ancient language family is the root of many European languages today.
What is the Indo-European language family?
Convinced the German people that they were superior to other ethnic groups.
Who is Adolph Hitler?
This term describes the belief in only one God, shared by Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
What is monotheism?
This European peninsula includes Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
Europe’s coastlines helped people earn a living through these two activities.
What are fishing and trading?
This term describes the growth of cities and movement of people into cities.
What is urbanization?
These three major language branches in Europe include Romance, Germanic, and this group.
What is the Slavic languages?
This term means trying to kill an entire ethnic group or forcing them to leave through terror.
What is ethnic cleansing?
This religion has existed in Europe since the Roman Empire, with a population drastically reduced by persecution during World War II.
What is Judaism?
Europe has many of these, such as the Rhine, Danube, and Volga, which are important for transportation and trade.
What are rivers?
These bridge-like structures carried water across long distances in the Roman Empire.
What are aqueducts?
This is a group of people who see themselves as culturally, socially, and linguistically similar.
What is an ethnicity?
This ancient empire’s language, Latin, led to the development of Romance languages.
What is the Roman Empire?
This Southeast European region experienced ethnic conflict and later became the country of Yugoslavia under Josip Tito.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
Followers of this religion believe Muhammad is the final prophet of God.
What is Islam?
These mountains in central Europe stretch across Switzerland, France, and Italy and are famous for skiing.
What are the Alps?
This underwater tunnel, completed in the 1990s, connects Great Britain and France.
What is the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel?
This multinational country includes Castilians, Gallegos, Basques, Andalusians, and Catalans.
What is Spain?
These make it difficult for people to live, work, and trade if they cannot communicate.
What are language barriers?
This conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland and Northern Ireland lasted from the 1960s to the 1990s.
What are The Irish Troubles?
The most widely practiced branch of Christianity in Europe.
What is Roman Catholicism?
Venice is famous for building its city around these waterways.
What are canals?
This economic theory encouraged nations to accumulate wealth in gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
Traditionally, this northern European region's cuisine features heavy meats, creams, butter, cheeses, and dense breads.
What is northern Europe?
Many Slavic languages are written using this alphabet.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
Germany wanted to expand into these regions so Germans could settle there during World War II.
What are Poland, Russia, and Ukraine?
All three religions worship the same God but have different holy books; name one of these holy books.
What is the Bible, the Torah, or the Quran?
Europe is surrounded by these, which provided fishing, trade, and defense.
What are seas and oceans?
Some European nations built these plants in the 1900s to provide electricity.
What are nuclear power plants?
When labor in the colonies was scarce, Europeans brought people from this continent to work as enslaved labor.
What is Africa?
This is the most widely spoken first language in the European Union.
What is German?
Approximately this many Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.
What is six million?
Before Christianity spread, Europe was home to these mostly polytheistic religions.
What are indigenous religions?