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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what are dikes | are walls or barriers to hold back the water |
| what is polders | The dutch call the land when they reclaim from the sea |
| what is estuary | extends for another 65miles |
| what is westerlies | strong wind that travel from west to east |
| what are deciduos | a forest that includes tree such as oak, maple, berch, and cestnut |
| what are coniferous | have cones and needle shaped leaves |
| what is smelting | To melt and fuse tin and copper |
| what is feudalism | under feudalism kings gave land to nobles |
| what is the middle ages | When nobles and knights, or warriors on horsesback and this also know as a time period |
| what is pilgrinmage | A visit to lands that were important to history or chistinaity |
| what is parliament | Being forced to state power with a new government instilution |
| what is industrialized | changed from of argricultural socitety to one based on industry |
| what was the Holocaust | the government- sponsored murder of 6 million Jew |
| postindustrial | when the economy of a country depends more on services than it does on industry |
| name of the 4 former countries that now make up the United kingdom | Scotland,whales. Northern Ireland, and England |
| the 2 mountains that divide western europe from southern europe | pyenees and alps |
| what separates england from europe | the english canle |
| 5 important rivers of western europe | Thames r., Rhine r. ,Elbe r. ,Danube r. , and Loire r. |
| two climates found in western europen | mariene west coast/cool winters and Mediterranean /hot day summers |
| 4 imporatant energy sources | coal,feratile soils, oil, and naturul gas |
| who was pope urban 2 | he was the roman emperor |
| major religion in europe | christianity |
| what was the crusades | it was a series of wars fought between RRC christians and muslins for control of Jerusalem |
| two European countries that fought in the hundred year war | France and england |
| who was Martin luther | the first German monk to question the cruch |
| most famouse cities in western europe | londan, dubrin, berlin, and pairs |
| name two major division of langauge spoken in western europe | romance and germanic |
| western european christains are either | catholic or protestant |