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World Cultures Europe
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Reformation
Global Warming
Industrial Revolution
Acid Rain
2. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Enlightenment
Acid Deposition
Cold War
Reformation
3. Separate communites
Alps
Communism
Fjords
City-States
4. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Enlightenment
Industrial Revolution
Realism
Glaciation
5. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Romanticism
Communism
Loess
European Union
6. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Balkanization
Crusades
Fjords
Light Industry
7. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Enlightenment
Ethnic Cleansing
Heavy Industry
Cold War
8. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Enlightenment
Acid Deposition
Mistral
Avalanches
9. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Farm Cooperatives
Dry Farming
Industrial Capitalism
10. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Permafrost
Mixed Farming
Balkanization
Polders
11. A strong north word from the Alps
Mistral
Light Industry
Cold War
Impressionists
12. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Refugees
Crusades
Siroccos
Cold War
13. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Acid Deposition
European Union
Middle Ages
Mistral
14. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Siroccos
Paris
Holocaust
Renaissance
15. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Romanticism
Farm Cooperatives
Enlightenment
Genetically Modified Foods
16. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Industrial Capitalism
Mixed Farming
Global Warming
Acid Deposition
17. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Genetically Modified Foods
Polders
Meltwater
Welfare States
18. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Light Industry
Brussels
Polders
Dikes
19. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Reformation
Fjords
Ethnic Cleansing
Glaciation
20. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Acid Rain
Siroccos
Farm Cooperatives
Northern European Plain
21. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Romanticism
Immigrant
Realism
Meltwater
22. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Holocaust
Glaciation
Industrial Revolution
Dry Farming
23. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Mixed Farming
Loess
Glaciation
24. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Acid Rain
Paris
Mistral
Guest Workers
25. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Foehns
Realism
Enlightenment
Feudalism
26. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Acid Deposition
Acid Rain
Farm Cooperatives
City-States
27. Payment for damages
Maastricht Treaty
Maastricht Treaty
Meltwater
Reparations
28. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Impressionists
Refugees
Reparations
Mistral
29. People who flee to another country for safety
Environmentalists
Avalanches
Refugees
Heavy Industry
30. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Ethnic Cleansing
Dikes
Dikes
Holocaust
31. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Maastricht Treaty
Glaciation
Renaissance
Reformation
32. Treaty which set up the European Union
City-States
Ethnic Cleansing
Fjords
Maastricht Treaty
33. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Romanticism
Permafrost
Environmentalists
Fjords
34. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Ethnic Cleansing
Balkanization
City-States
Dikes
35. Also known as the Great European Plain
European Union
Northern European Plain
Genetically Modified Foods
Acid Deposition
36. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Genetically Modified Foods
Impressionists
Welfare States
Maastricht Treaty
37. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Northern European Plain
Polders
Maastricht Treaty
Heavy Industry
38. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Cold War
Alps
Enlightenment
Avalanches
39. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Communism
Meltwater
Timberline
Global Warming
40. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
City-States
Siroccos
Permafrost
Brussels
41. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Reformation
Avalanches
Genetically Modified Foods
Acid Rain
42. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Ethnic Cleansing
Crusades
Holocaust
Alps
43. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Refugees
Acid Rain
Organic Farming
Industrial Capitalism
44. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Acid Deposition
Cold War
45. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Guest Workers
Paris
Global Warming
Timberline
46. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Feudalism
Maastricht Treaty
Mistral
Refugees
47. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union
Impressionists
City-States
Crusades
48. France's capital
Reformation
European Union
Paris
Guest Workers
49. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Guest Workers
Reparations
Middle Ages
Siroccos
50. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Alps
Impressionists
Paris
Reparations