Talkin' Geography
This European plain is definitely anything but ordinary....
Northern European Plain
France was once apart of a region originally called what?
Gaul
Name Them....
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
For hundreds of years Germany remained a loose association of......
states.
They are...?
Switzerland/Austria.
You might Sea what body of water if you took a trip to Northern England?
North Sea
The last successful empire that ruled over France was lead by Charlemagne and the.....
Franks
What city is home to NATO and the European Union?
Brussels
In 1871 Prussia did what?
Unified Germany
Who's side was Austria on during the First World War?
Germany's
This is a warm ocean current that flows along Europe's northwestern coast, if you get my drift....
North Atlantic Drift
This man was a giant figure when it came to bringing France into the 19th Century...
Napoleon
Holland is formally called ____________ and home to the ____________.
Netherlands, Dutch.
Germany's defeat in which world war lead to it's division amongst the Allied Nations?
World War II
Switzerland is a Federal Republic with 26 districts called.....
Cantons
Name the countries that make up the British Isles and Scandinavia?
Isles: Ireland, Northern Island, Scotland, England and Wales.
Scan: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greenland, Finland, and Iceland
France was the center of this 1700's cultural movement....
The Enlightenment
Luxembourg is smaller than this tiny U.S. state?
Rhode Island
East Germany belonged to________ & West Germany was the ________.
East: U.S./G.B & France
West: USSR
Switzerland is famously, always....
Neutral
What is a Fjord?
A narrow inlet of the sea set between high rocky cliffs.
France trades the ________ it produces with other countries in the European Union.
agriculture
What is the Hague and where is it located?
The name for the government of the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam.
Germany has this form of government with the ___________ as it's leader.
Parliamentary, Chancellor (Prime Minister)
Switzerland is famous for watches, chocolate and_________. A word that Jenna was uncertain if it had a plural version...
Cheese