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World Cultures Europe
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1. Also known as the Great European Plain
Northern European Plain
Cold War
Feudalism
Ethnic Cleansing
2. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Glaciation
Acid Rain
Heavy Industry
Welfare States
3. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Realism
Dry Farming
Heavy Industry
Impressionists
4. Separate communites
City-States
Enlightenment
Romanticism
Holocaust
5. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Light Industry
Renaissance
Loess
Cold War
6. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Farm Cooperatives
Middle Ages
Dry Farming
City-States
7. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Middle Ages
Feudalism
Acid Deposition
Communism
8. Payment for damages
Reparations
Holocaust
Timberline
Realism
9. France's capital
Northern European Plain
Paris
Organic Farming
Acid Deposition
10. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Immigrant
Impressionists
Farm Cooperatives
Organic Farming
11. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Heavy Industry
Immigrant
Northern European Plain
Ethnic Cleansing
12. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Fjords
Crusades
European Union
Mistral
13. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Romanticism
Meltwater
Mixed Farming
Renaissance
14. Payment for damages
Reparations
Brussels
Environmentalists
Communism
15. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Avalanches
Glaciation
Loess
Ethnic Cleansing
16. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Organic Farming
Crusades
Environmentalists
Industrial Capitalism
17. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Mixed Farming
Industrial Revolution
Reformation
Maastricht Treaty
18. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Mixed Farming
Romanticism
Mixed Farming
Balkanization
19. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Mistral
Immigrant
Industrial Capitalism
Cold War
20. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Ethnic Cleansing
Farm Cooperatives
Fjords
Feudalism
21. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Crusades
Global Warming
Industrial Revolution
Global Warming
22. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Welfare States
Industrial Capitalism
Glaciation
Dry Farming
23. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Northern European Plain
Timberline
Mixed Farming
Global Warming
24. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
European Union
Dikes
Realism
Fjords
25. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Brussels
Polders
Holocaust
26. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Impressionists
Reparations
Mixed Farming
Guest Workers
27. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Polders
Feudalism
Avalanches
Glaciation
28. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Holocaust
Dry Farming
Light Industry
Alps
29. France's capital
Northern European Plain
Refugees
Industrial Revolution
Paris
30. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Loess
Acid Deposition
Welfare States
Dikes
31. People who flee to another country for safety
Crusades
Fjords
City-States
Refugees
32. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Reparations
Realism
Siroccos
City-States
33. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Feudalism
Enlightenment
Loess
Polders
34. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Paris
Brussels
Acid Rain
Environmentalists
35. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Light Industry
Acid Rain
Environmentalists
Maastricht Treaty
36. Large banks of earth and stone
Mistral
Dry Farming
Dikes
Permafrost
37. Treaty which set up the European Union
Brussels
Immigrant
Maastricht Treaty
Ethnic Cleansing
38. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Enlightenment
Brussels
Mistral
Ethnic Cleansing
39. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Meltwater
Immigrant
Alps
Environmentalists
40. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Polders
Dry Farming
Genetically Modified Foods
Mixed Farming
41. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Welfare States
Balkanization
Brussels
Impressionists
42. A strong north word from the Alps
Impressionists
Avalanches
Mistral
Timberline
43. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Avalanches
Alps
Heavy Industry
Meltwater
44. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Impressionists
Environmentalists
Alps
Siroccos
45. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Loess
Northern European Plain
Organic Farming
Acid Deposition
46. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Dry Farming
Alps
City-States
Crusades
47. The result of melting snow and ice
City-States
Paris
Meltwater
Welfare States
48. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Reparations
Refugees
Ethnic Cleansing
Acid Deposition
49. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Brussels
Balkanization
Fjords
European Union
50. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
European Union
Industrial Capitalism
Cold War
Enlightenment