geography 202, exam 2, Europe pt.1 – Flashcards
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West
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The west has always seen itself at "separate" from the east. Term is derived from the Greek words for "evening or night" aka the land of the setting sun.
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Europe and the sea girt isles
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First known reference to the term Europe and resides in a Greek hymn to Apollo, at the time they were referring to the archipelago of islands in the Aegean Sea.
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Compact Variety
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Europes coastline is highly varied, with peninsulas and inland seas. It also contains many environments very close together. The Axial Peninsula gives off many small peninsulas and one is never far from the sea.
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Alpine Spine
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Backbone of Europe, with lowlands on either side. The southern side contains the plains of Lombardy and is the bread basket of Europe.
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Northern Alpine Plain
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Very large transalpine plain, stretching from France to Russia.
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Asia Minor
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"first act" of European cores, based on the Myth of Europa in which she's abducted to Crete and civilization moves to Greece.
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Greece
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Second European core
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Rome
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Third European core
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Rhineland
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Fourth European core
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Gaul
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Opening between Pyrenees and Alps, became and avenue for from to the English Channel.
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Keltica
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West region of Rhine, connects to Germania on east side of Rhine. Eventually its inhabitants became romanized peoples.
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Germania
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Benefits from distance decay of power, and could not be conquered by Rome. These Germans where warlike barbarians, in contrast to the docile celts of France.
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Hercynian Forest
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Stretches north of Alps and east of Rhine through Germany, forcing German tribes to become decentralized and clannish.
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Transalpine
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Other side of Alps from the view of Rome, became the core of Europe after fall of the empire.
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Charlemagne
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German warlord crowned in Rome by the pope, fused east and west regions of the Rhine before France was unified.
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Chivalry
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The result of the Celtic-German fusion, the violence of germans combined with the docile nature of the celts gave rise to a sanctification of violence.
