Europe Crossword – Flashcards
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Polders
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Man-made land in the Netherlands
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Europeanization
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Diffusion of europe's culture during the colonial period
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Mediterranean
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Climate type with hot, dry summer
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Venice
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Renaissance city on the Adriatic
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Alps
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Mountain barrier between Mediterranean and Northern Plain
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Carpathians
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Dracula myth was born here in Transylvania
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Malta
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Micro-state island in Mediterranean
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Britain
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Island of England, Wales and Scotland
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Loire
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Flows by Nantes, follows the northern grape limit
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Pleistocene
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Geologic age which shaped northern hemispheric land masses with glacial advances and retreats
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Dinaric
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Part of the Alpine system in former Yugoslavia
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Catholicism
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Dominant religion in Western Mediterranean
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Oslo
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Norway's capital
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Balkan
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Greece and several countries of the former Yugoslavia are found on this peninsula
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Pyrenees
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Physiographic barrier between France and Spain
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Dublin
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Capital of the Irish Republic
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Gulf Stream
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Keeps northwestern Europe warm despite high latitude
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Romance
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Languages based on Latin
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Budapest
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Straddles the Danube in Hungary
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Slavic
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Eastern European Linguistic type, from the Roman 'slave'
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Baltic
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Poland, Sweden, and the former Baltic Republics are found on this sea coast
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Ruhr
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Germany's Industrial Core
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Sicily
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Palermo, the 'Mafia'
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Bosporus
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Choke point at Istanbul
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Iron
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Age when Classical Greek civilization arose
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Vistula
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Drains central Poland, enters the Baltic at Gdansk
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Neolithic
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens populate Europe after ice melts
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Rhine
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Drains western German uplands; flows to Rotterdam
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Corsica
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Napoleon was from here
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Renaissance
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European rebirth
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Protestantism
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Dominant religious type of northwestern Europe
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Adriatic
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Venice, Trieste and Dubrovnik are on this coast
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Iron Curtain
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Imaginary line between Eastern European countries and the West during the Cold War
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Aegean
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Greece is across this sea from Turkey
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Indo-European
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Proto-type for most modern European Languages
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Neutrality
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Sweden and Switzerland have generally adopted this political stance
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Biscay
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Embayment of western France and northern Spain
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Marseilles
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Major French port on the Mediterranean
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Bronze
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Early metallurgy age; copper and tin
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Viticulture
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Growing grapes for wine
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London
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Roman satellite capital on the Thames
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Peninsula
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Scandinavia, Iberia, Italy, Greece, are found on this type of land
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Cold War
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Peace via nuclear threat, ended 1989
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Irredentism
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Taking the land and population of another country
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Rotterdam
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Most important European port
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Gibraltar
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The English own this side of the gate to the Mediterranean
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Cologne
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Roman satellite capital in Germany: smelly
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Thames
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Small but extremely important English river, named by the Celts
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Common Wealth
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Former British colonial areas, still trading partners
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Scandinavia
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Norway, Sweden, Denmark
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Guadilquivir
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Flows by Seville in southern Spain
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Orkney
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Islands with Neolithic sites off Scotland's north coast
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Danube
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This river touches more countries than any other
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Paris
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France's primate city
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Rhone
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This river valley separates France's Central Massif from the Alps and reaches the Mediterranean Sea
