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7th SS - Chapter 13
Chapter 13: Southern Europe
Question | Answer |
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mainland | country's main landmass |
sirocco | hot, dry wind from North Africa |
city-state | a self-governing city called a "polis" |
98% of Greeks practice are of this faith | Eastern Greek Orthodox Christians |
pope | bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church |
Renaissance | new era of learning that began in Italy in the 1300s |
coalition government | a government in which several parties join together to run the country |
Moors | Muslim North Africans |
dialect | variation of a language |
cork | bark stripped from a certain type of oak tree |
Ebro, Douro, Tagus, and Guadalquivir Rivers | Rivers that cut through the Iberian Peninsula |
Greece's largest city | Athens |
Greece's second largest city | Thessaloniki |
Most popular dialect in Spain | Castilian |
Italy's largest river | Po River |
Greece's most popular industry | agriculture |
Italy's most valuable crop | grapes |
Italy's 3 northern industrial city centers | Milan, Turin, and Genoa |
capital city of Italy | Rome |
Ancient Greeks invented | theater and democracy |
Climate in Southern Italy | sunny and warm |
Eastern half of the Roman Empire was known as | Byzantine Empire |
Ancient Romans invented | Latin, domes, arches, law, order, and safety |
Southern Europe is made up of 3 peninsulas | Portugal/Spain, Italy, and Greece |
Greece's largest island | Crete |
Present-day Constantinople is known as | Istanbul |
Mosaics | pictures created from tiny pieces of colored stone |
Who painted the Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci |
Who perfected the telescope and experimented with gravity | Galileo Galilei |
Who traveled to the Americas | Christopher Colombus |
Which country paid for Christopher Columbus (an Italian) to voyage to the the New World | Spain |
98% of Italians belong to this faith | Roman Catholic |