Physical Geography
river in Paris
What is the Seine?
Dictator of Germany
Who is Hitler?
land reclaimed by the sea
What are polders?
This lasted about 100 years
What is the Hundred Years' War
This Empire was in control of Europe in 14 A.D.
What is the Roman Empire?
mountains between France and Spain
What are the Pyrenees?
German priest who started the Protestant Reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
trees that lose their leaves
What are deciduous?
This ended when the Soviet Union fell apart.
What is the Cold War?
warriors from Asia that drove Germanic tribes west
What are the Huns?
mountains that are south in France through Switzerland, Austria, and Germany
What are the Alps?
Proposed that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun
Who is Copernicus?
walls built to hold back the sea
what are dikes?
This was blamed on the Germans
What is WWI?
killed about 25 million people and lasted 4 years
What is the Bubonic Plague or Black Death?
busiest waterway in Europe
What is the Rhine?
Wanted to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims
Who is Pope Urban II?
religious journey to a Holy place
what is a pilgrimage?
Germany, Italy, Japan
What are the Axis Powers?
this killed about 6 million Jews
What is the Holocaust?
tallest mountain in the Alps
What is Mount Blanc?
Helped spread Christianity
Emperor Constantine
place where the sea meets with part of a river
What is an estuary?
the powers that fought Germany
What were the Allied Powers?
a time of reason
What is Enlightenment?