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100
These are long narrow inlets carved by ancient glaciers in present day Norway
What are fjords?
100
This is a common currency used in 17 of the 28 EU nations
What is the Euro?
100
This language type dominates in southern Europe
What are Romance languages?
100
The Berlin Wall was a symbol of this conflict
What is the Cold War between the USSR and western Europe & the USA?
100
This was a period in which European music; literature and art flourished
What is the Renaissance beginning in 1300?
200
This nation has reclaimed 1/4 of its land by using dikes and other seaworks and is vulnerable to global warming issues
What is the Netherlands?
200
This economic system resulted from industrial and social changes in Europe in the 19th century
What is industrial capitalism?
200
The most densely populated nation in northern Europe
What is the United Kingdom?
200
Under communism this resulted in problems that are still experienced today in eastern Europe
What are environmental problems and pollution resulting from unregulated industrialization?
200
This movement that lessened the power of the Catholic Church beginning in Germany in 1517 with Martin Luther
What is the Reformation?
300
The Danube River flows from Germany to this body of water
What is the Black Sea?
300
This mass killing of European Jews; trade union leaders; radicals and others was committed by the German Nazis in WW2
What is the Holocaust?
300
These hot dry winds blow from north Africa into southern Europe
What are siroccos?
300
This country was divided between west and east after WW2
What is Germany with the west allied with the USA and the east with the USSR?
300
After WW2 eastern European nations were controlled by the Soviet Union during this time
What is the Cold War?
400
This has helped protect England from past invasions
What is the English Channel?
400
This area of Europe experienced ethnic conflict among Serbs; Croats and Bosnian Muslims during the 1990s
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
400
Northern Europe's oldest and largest urban area
What is London?
400
This is why the climate in western Europe is warm for its latitude
What is the Gulf Stream which brings warm winds and currents from the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Ancient city states that shared a common culture and language in this future nation would influence our political system today
What is Greece?
500
This climate is found in most of southern Europe
What is Mediterranean?
500
During the Middle Ages this system emerged in which monarchs or lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
What is feudalism?
500
The Roman Empire brought this religion to much of Europe
What is Christianity?
500
These mountains run through eastern Europe from Slovakia to Romania
What are the Carpathian Mountains?
500
In the 1950s western Europe experienced this shortage
What are workers?