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29 Cards in this Set
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A series of religious wars to win Palestine back from the Muslims
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Crusades
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The Portuguese first started exploration, looking for trade routes to _____
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India
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Powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for their loyalty
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Feudalism
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The Chunnel connects ______ and _____ _______
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France and Great Britain
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The largest city in Europe with about 8 million people is ______
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London
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_______ is the most populated country in Europe with 81 million people
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Germany
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Lessened the power of the Catholic Church and led to Protestantism
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Reformation
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The Cold War started just after _____ ___ __
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World War II
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Local forms of languages
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Dialects
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In the video, Berne Geist lost his ___ trying to escape from East Germany
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leg
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Art style that portrays life as it really was
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Realism
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The Romans introduced ____________ to Europe in 380A.D.
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Christianity
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People of the ___________ were influenced by the Greeks and Romans
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Renaissance
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People who flee to a foreign country for safety
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Refugee
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Most Protestants live mainly in ________ Europe
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northern
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English is from the ________ branch of the Indo-European language family
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Germanic
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Groups of related languages that developed from an earlier language
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Language family
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______ ______ is a country with one main culture, language, and religion
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Ethnic groups
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The religion that spread inventions like _____ and _________ into Europe was Islam
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paper and gunpowder
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Power struggle between Soviet Union and U.S.
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Cold War
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What span of years is the Industrial Revolution said to have taken place and what was the major result?
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1750-1900; it transformed Europe from an agricultural society to an industrial society
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The Berlin Wall was build to keep the people from leaving ____ _______
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East Germany
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The Berlin Wall fell in ____
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1989
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The mass killing of 6 million Jews in World War II
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Holocaust
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The _____ Empire came before the Roman Empire
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Greek
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Switzerland's official languages are ______, ______, and _______
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German, French, and Italian
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Economic and political system designed to establish a classless society
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Communism
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Germany was divided into East and West Germany after _____ ___ __
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World War II
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City-states were set up by ______
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Greeks
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