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all countries in Southern Europe have coastlines along it
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
peninsula that Greece occupies
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
100
capital of Italy
What is Rome?
100
mountain range that forms a border between Spain & France
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
100
capital of Greece
What is Athens?
200
the westernmost peninsula in Europe
What is Iberia?
200
a large island south of Greece
What is Crete?
200
largest city in Southern Italy; an important port
What is Naples?
200
the economies of Spain & Portugal are _____ than other countries in Western Europe
What is: poorer?
200
from about 1350 through the 1500s; a period of great creativity in Europe
What is the Renaissance?
300
the highest mountains in Europe
What are the Alps?
300
the mountain range that covers much of Greece
What are the Pindus Mountains?
300
mountains that run along the Italian Peninsula?
What are the Apennines?
300
group of Muslims that invaded the Iberian Peninsula before non-Christians were forced to leave and before Spain & Portugal built large empires
Who were the Moors?
300
capital of Portugal
What is Lisbon?
400
a description of much of the climate in Southern Europe
What is: warm, dry summers & mild, wet winters?
400
how Greece became a monarchy in the 1800s
What is: by overthrowing the Turks?
400
river that runs through one of the most fertile & densely populated areas in Europe
What is the Po River?
400
type of song & dance that is popular in Spain
What is the Flamenco?
400
large island near the southern tip of Italy
What is Sicily?
500
the longest river in Southern Europe; it flows across the Iberian Peninsula
What is the Tagus River?
500
from Chapter 13: forces that did not conquer Greece
Who were the Moors?
500
happened shortly after the Roman Empire fell
What is: Italian cities formed their own states?
500
capital of Spain
What is Madrid?
500
government where a king or queen shares power with an elected parliament and a prime minister
What is a parliamentary monarchy?