Geography Vocab Chapter 12

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United Kingdom

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a relatively ethnically diverse and densley populated northern country

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Ireland

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a smaller country dominated with people of irish ethnicity

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iceland

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a smaller country dominated with people of scanndananian ethnicity

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norway

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a smaller country dominated with people of norwegian ethnicity

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Sweden

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a smaller country dominated with people of swedish ethnicity

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finland

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a smaller country dominated with people of finnish ethnicity

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Denmark

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a smaller country dominated with people of danish ethnicity

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Immigrant

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people leaving their country and going to another country. most immigrants in Europe go to the british isles. From South Asia and the West Indies

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Refugees

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People who flee to another country for safety

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Feudalism

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a system in which monarch or lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty

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Reformation

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a religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholit Church and intoduced Protestantism to Europe

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Enlightenment

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a movement to value reason and question tradition

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Industrial Revolution

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transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines

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Comunism

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a philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers

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Cold war

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a power struggle betwen the soviet-controlled communist world and the non- communist world

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European Union

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a union in northern Europe in whic the goal is a united Europe in whihc goals, services, and workers can move freely among member countries. Created Euro!

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Welfare states

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countries that have health care programs funded by governments

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Romanticism

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Int influential style focused on emotions, stirring historical events, and the struggles of individuals

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France

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is made up of two or more ethnicities that have blended over the centuries. French

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netherlands

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is made up of two or more ethnicities that have blended over the centuries. Netherlander

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Belgium

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is made up of two or more ethnicities that have blended over the centuries. German

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Switzerland

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is made up of two or more ethnicities that have blended over the centuries. Swiss

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Crusades

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a series of brutal religious wars

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Reperations

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payemnt for war damages

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Holocaust

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the mass murder of more than 6 million European jews

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Luxembourg

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the nertherlands

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Realism

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an art form the foucused on accuratley depciting the details of everyday life

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Impressionism

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an art form that was based on the natural world

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Italy

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where the Itlaians ancesters, the Etruscans, formed the regiion's first civilization

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Spain

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A country of many diffrent ethinc groups. Home of the ancient Catalns

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Andorra

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home of the Catalans who spoke Catalan

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Greece

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3,500 years agothe Mioans and the Myceans created seafaring civilizations

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Portugal

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its population is a mix of early European ethnic groups, because it has a long coastline made very accessible throughout history

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Vatican City

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home of the catholic church, it is the world's smallest independent state with a populaiton of 1,000

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City States

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seperate communities which were linked by Greek language and culture

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Rennaissance

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Europe's period of artistic and intellectual achievement taht began in the 1300s in Italy

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Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Herzegovina

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The central portion of eastern Europe includes countries that once formed the country of Yugoslavia

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Croatia, slovenia, macedonia, and Kosovo

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Ethnic and cultural groups live here such as Eastern Orthodoz Serbs, Roman Catholic Croats, and Bosnian Muslims.

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Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia

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Ethnic and cultural groups such as the ones in Croatia, Slovenia, macedonia, and Kosovo. However, these countries are farther north

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Ukraine

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come from Slavic groups

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Lavita, Estonia, and Lithuania

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Also come from Slavic group, but are baltic sea countries

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Bulgaria

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The Roma people- once referred to as Gypsies

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Belarus

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Part of where the Slavic groups moved as a result of Asian invasion

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Romania

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The lands between the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube River. The Romans conqured it and their coustums and lanugage lead to the name Romania. it was not unified until the 1100s because of frequent invasions

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Balkanization

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the division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile wiht each other. This term arose as a result of hte Balkan wars

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Ethnic Cleansing

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when someone expelled or killed rival Ehtnic groups in the area