Rivers
This river and the Mediterranean Sea provided Rome with the opportunity to trade and conquer.
What is the Tiber.
It is the border between Spain and France.
What are the Pyrenees?
This bootshaped peninsula borders the Mediterranean Sea on the east, and the Adriatic Sea on the west.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
This region includes Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Faroe Island, and Denmark.
What is Scandinavia?
This Roman Emperor brought an end to the persecution of Christians?
Who is Constanstine?
It is a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between steep slopes.
What is a fjord?
It flows in a mostly northerly direction through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.
What is the Rhine?
This mountain range has peaks in France, Germany, Italy and Austria.
What are the Alps?
Spain and Portugal reside on this peninsula.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
This region includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What are the British Isles?
This monk started the Protestant Reformation in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
It is a partially decayed plant matter found in bogs. In Ireland, it's often used for fuel.
What is peat?
It is 2,857 km long and up to 1.5 km wide. It is the second largest river in Europe.
What is the Danube.
This mountain range is the "backbone" of the Italian peninsula.
What are the Apennine Mountains.
The northern part of this peninsula is near the Artic.
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
This region includes France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Monaco.
What is Western Europe?
The famous scuptor and paintor of the Renaissance who painted the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
It is land that is reclaimed from the sea or other body of water by diking and drainage.
What is polder?
It flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. At 3690 km it is the longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga?
This mountain was believed to be the home of Zeus.
What is Mount Olympus?
Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Croatia are among several countries on this peninsula.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
This region includes Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta and Vatican City.
What is Southern Europe?
This Macedonia leader conquered the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in a short period of time.
Who is Alexander the Great?
It is an earthen bank (dirt wall) used to direct or prevent the passage of water.
What is a dike?
A major river in France and Switzerland, starting in the Alps and flowing through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before flowing into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Rhone?
This mountain range forms the natural divide between the continents of Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
What is the name of the Danish peninsula?
What is Jutland?
This region includes the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
What are the Carpathian states?
The inventor of the first movable type printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
It is a current of warm water from the Tropics. It influences the climate of Europe.
What is North Atlantic Drift?