1. Europe Test Review for Tuesday 11/29 Study - Ch 12, 13, 14 and class notes

2. Ireland North Atlantic Drift Peat Irish Potato famine Northern Ireland conflict

3. North Atlantic Drift A current of warm water from the tropics that makes Western Europe have a mild rainy climate.

4. Peat Because Ireland lacks energy sources, the Irish burn peat as a source of fuel. Peat is partially decayed plant matter found in bogs.

5. Potato Famine The Great Hunger reduced the population of Ireland by 25 percent between 1845 and 1852. It resulted in a mass migration of Irish people to the United States.Ireland

6. Northern Ireland conflict Half of Northern Ireland’s population is Protestant but 99% of the Republic of Ireland’s population is Catholic. Catholics in Northern Ireland want to be one country with the rest of Ireland, but the UK doesn’t want to give up.

7. Iceland Mid-Atlantic Ridge

8. United Kingdom Feudalism Magna Carta Henry VIII English Reformation Parliament English Bill of Rights Industrial Revolution British Empire

9. Feudalism Political System in which powerful lords owned most of the land. Generic plan of a mediaeval manor; open-field strip farming, some enclosures, triennial crop rotation, demesne and manse, common woodland, pasturage and meadowcrop rotation demesnemanse

10. Magna Carta Historic document that limited the power of the English King signed in 1215. An English charter originally issued in 1215. Magna Carta was the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today.Englishcharter constitutional law

11. Henry VIII (8 th ) Henry VIII is famous for having been married six times. He wielded perhaps the most formidable power of any English monarch and brought about the English Reformation. Many significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry VIII's reign. They included the several Acts which severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church and established the king as the supreme head of the Church in England. married six times English Reformation Church of EnglandRoman Catholic Church

12. Parliament England's representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed (in some cases, they inherit the position)

13. English Bill of Rights 1689 It lays down limits on the powers of sovereign and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement to regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution.

14. Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution which began in Britain marked a major turning point in human social history. Manual labor based economies began to be replaced by ones dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery.

15. British Empire “the sun never set’s on the British Empire” Thanks to the Royal navy, England ruled & controlled ¼ of the worlds population. This colonial rule spread English culture & laws to the rest of the world.

16. Low Countries Benelux Polder Ijsselmeer

17. Polder

19. France French Revolution Euro European Union

20. French Revolution

21. Euro

22. European Union

23. Germany Gutenberg Printing Press Reformation Nationalism Anti-Semitism Holocaust Berlin Wall Rhine River

24. Printing press

25. Martin Luther Translated bible into German to make it more accessible to common people Started the reformation and the protestant religion

26. Nationalism The belief that people should be loyal to their nation, the people with whom they share land, culture, and history. German speaking people finally united during the begging of the 1900’s.

27. Holocaust A program of mass murder of European Jews and other minorities.

28. Berlin Wall Wall dividing eastern and western Berlin The east was allied with the communist in Russia the west was allied with noncommunist Europe

29. The Rhine river connects industrial Germany to the North Sea.

30. Italy Republic Aqueduct Crusades Black Death Renaissance

31. Republic A government in which citizens elect representatives to rule in their name.

32. Aqueducts Structure that carried water long distances.

33. Crusades A series of wars to take Palestine from the Muslims.

34. Black Death

35. Renaissance A time of renewed interest in learning and the arts.

36. Spain Spanish Armada Iberian Peninsula

37. Spanish Armada

38. Greece City-States Parthenon

39. City-State Is a political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands.

40. Nordic Countries Scandinavian Peninsula Fjords

41. Fjords in Norway

42. Eastern Europe Cultural Crossroads Satellite nation Balkanization Ethnic Cleansing Market Economy

43. Cultural Crossroads A place where various cultures cross paths

44. Satellite nations Nations dominated by another country

45. Balkanization The process of a region breaking up into small, mutually hostile units

46. Eastern Europe Map when I was born

47. Eastern Europe Map Now