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World Cultures Europe
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1. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Middle Ages
Cold War
Crusades
Acid Deposition
2. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Holocaust
Meltwater
Dry Farming
European Union
3. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Enlightenment
Maastricht Treaty
Renaissance
Realism
4. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Siroccos
Reformation
Middle Ages
Enlightenment
5. Treaty which set up the European Union
Avalanches
Maastricht Treaty
Dry Farming
Environmentalists
6. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Maastricht Treaty
Welfare States
Foehns
City-States
7. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Industrial Capitalism
Feudalism
Meltwater
Heavy Industry
8. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Renaissance
Avalanches
Romanticism
9. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
City-States
Organic Farming
Immigrant
European Union
10. The result of melting snow and ice
Meltwater
Immigrant
Siroccos
Renaissance
11. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Crusades
Middle Ages
Industrial Revolution
Global Warming
12. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union
Immigrant
Ethnic Cleansing
Feudalism
13. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Communism
Global Warming
Maastricht Treaty
Immigrant
14. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Fjords
Impressionists
Mixed Farming
Enlightenment
15. Large banks of earth and stone
Dikes
Welfare States
Middle Ages
Avalanches
16. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Timberline
Permafrost
Enlightenment
Guest Workers
17. France's capital
Paris
Industrial Capitalism
Global Warming
Holocaust
18. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Genetically Modified Foods
Northern European Plain
Balkanization
Northern European Plain
19. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Middle Ages
Crusades
Impressionists
Maastricht Treaty
20. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Maastricht Treaty
Holocaust
Industrial Capitalism
Meltwater
21. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Mixed Farming
Impressionists
Enlightenment
Northern European Plain
22. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Avalanches
Acid Rain
Enlightenment
Heavy Industry
23. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Immigrant
Romanticism
Industrial Capitalism
Mixed Farming
24. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Glaciation
Feudalism
Communism
Fjords
25. Also known as the Great European Plain
Northern European Plain
Middle Ages
Glaciation
Farm Cooperatives
26. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Reformation
Enlightenment
Cold War
Holocaust
27. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Light Industry
Immigrant
Brussels
28. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Dikes
Welfare States
Romanticism
Acid Deposition
29. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Loess
Mixed Farming
Industrial Revolution
Mistral
30. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Refugees
Reparations
Realism
Renaissance
31. Separate communites
Alps
City-States
Cold War
Balkanization
32. A strong north word from the Alps
Ethnic Cleansing
Mistral
Siroccos
Meltwater
33. Also known as the Great European Plain
Renaissance
Northern European Plain
Mixed Farming
Polders
34. People who flee to another country for safety
Refugees
Loess
Immigrant
Ethnic Cleansing
35. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Brussels
Guest Workers
Genetically Modified Foods
Paris
36. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Acid Rain
Genetically Modified Foods
Loess
Timberline
37. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Alps
Feudalism
Maastricht Treaty
Middle Ages
38. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Feudalism
Industrial Capitalism
Alps
39. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Acid Rain
Holocaust
Glaciation
Guest Workers
40. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Reparations
Heavy Industry
Avalanches
Mixed Farming
41. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Industrial Revolution
Renaissance
Siroccos
Middle Ages
42. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Reformation
Northern European Plain
Maastricht Treaty
Avalanches
43. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Dikes
Feudalism
Cold War
Acid Deposition
44. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Impressionists
Romanticism
Loess
Glaciation
45. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Refugees
Crusades
Mixed Farming
Impressionists
46. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Organic Farming
European Union
Polders
Heavy Industry
47. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Permafrost
Farm Cooperatives
Holocaust
Realism
48. The result of melting snow and ice
Immigrant
Meltwater
Brussels
Balkanization
49. Separate communites
City-States
Holocaust
Farm Cooperatives
Polders
50. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Industrial Revolution
Permafrost
Loess
Middle Ages