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Unit 2 Europe
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Penninsula | A body of land surrounded on three side of water |
| Uplands | hills, mountains, and plateaus |
| Polder | Land in the Netherlands that has been reclaimed from the sea for farming |
| Bay | A body of water surround by three sides by land |
| Fjord | A deep, narrow bay |
| Canal | A human- made waterway through land for boats and ships |
| Waterway | A navigable route for traveling and transport |
| Ecosystem | A community of living organisms in their natural environment, or habitat |
| Marine Reserve | An ocean ares set aside to protect ocean life from humans |
| Democracy | A from of government by the people, in which citizens often elect representatives to govern them |
| City-State | A independent state made up of a city and the territories depending on it |
| Golden Age | A period of great wealth, culture, and democracy in Greece |
| Philosopher | A person who examines questions about the universe and searches for the truth |
| Plebeian | A farmer or lower class person in ancient Rome |
| Aqueduct | A transport system from carrying water long distances, sometime raised on a bridge |
| Feudal System | A social structure during the Middle Ages consisting of a king , lords, vassals, and serfs |
| Navigations | The science of finding positions and planning routes |
| Natural Rights | Rights such as life, liberty, and property that people possess at birth |
| Nationalism | A strong sense of loyalty to one's country |
| Guillotine | A machine used to execute people during the French Revolution |
| Reparations | After a war, money paid as punishment, usually by the aggressors in the conflict |
| Republic | A form of government in which officials are elected by the people to govern |
| Navigable | Wide or deep enough to be traveled by boat or ships |
| Radical | A person who wants an extreme change or holds an extreme political position |
| Rhine River | A river that starts in Switzerland and ends in the North Sea |
| Alps | A European mountain chain |
| Danube River | A river that starts in Germany and ends at the Black Sea |
| Acropolis | A rocky hill in Athens, Greece, that served as a fortress for the ancient city's most important buildings |
| Reformation | the movement in the 1500s to reform Christianity |
| Enlightenment | A social movement of the 1700s that worked for the education and rights of the individual |
| John Locke | John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist |
| Reign of Terror | A movement in France led by Maximilien Robespierre in which 40,000 people were beheaded in 1793-94 |
| Great Depression | A world-wide economic downturn in the 1930s, marked by poverty and high unemployment |
| Treaty of Versailles | A peace Treaty that ended enemy gunfire |
| Cold War | A long period of political tension without fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union, roughly from 1948 to 1991 |
| Iron Curtain | An imaginary boundary that separated Communist and non-Communist countries in Europe during the Cold War |
| Berlin Wall | A wall that divided Communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin; it was torn down in 1989 |
| Factory System | A way of working in which each person works on only one parts of a product |
| Industrial Revolution | A period in the 1700s and 1800s in which workers in factories began to use machines and power tools for large-scale industry |
| Renaissance | meaning "rebirth"a period in the 1300-1500s in which culture and the arts flourished |
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