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35 Cards in this Set
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Most important waterway
in Europe? |
Rhine
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National Socialist
Party leader in Germany? |
`Adolf Hitler
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Great German
Scientist? |
Albert
Einstein |
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German city
divided after WWII? |
Berlin
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Germany is often
called the ???? |
"Land of the
Reformation" |
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This man's desire
to conquer led to WWII? |
Adolf Hitler
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Germany's capital?
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Berlin
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3 famous German
musicians? |
Bach, Handel
Beethoven |
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This country was
reunited in the spring of 1990? |
Germany
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Volcano in Italy
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Mount Vesuvius
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A great
scientist? |
Galileo
Galilei |
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Capital of Italy
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Rome
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An Island
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Sicily
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Renaissance began or
"Home of the Renaissance" |
Italy
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home of the
"leaning tower" |
Pisa
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great explorer
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Marco Polo
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Painted the
Sistine Chapel |
Michelangelo
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Dictator and leader
of the Italian Fascists |
Mussolini
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Painter of the
"Mona Lisa" |
Leonardo
da Vinci |
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Know the map
locations of the listed places. |
Athens, Oslo
Adriatic Sea, Baltic Sea, Sweden, Helsinki, Pyrenees, Portugal, Paris, Rhine River |
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2 countries on the
Iberian peninsula? |
Spain and
Portugal |
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Lisbon
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capital of
Portugal |
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Strait of Gilbralter
separates Iberian Peninsula from ??? |
Africa
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Matadors entertain
crowds by fighting ?? |
bulls
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Huge swamps in Spain
are called ?? |
the Tidelands
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Who was the first
explorer to make a voyage around the world? |
Magellan
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What mountains
separate the Iberian Peninsula from the other part of Europe |
Pyrenees
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name of a famous tower
named after its creator |
Eiffel
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capital of France
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Paris
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This American Hero,
from a french huguenot family rode to warn that that the British were coming. |
Paul Revere
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Leader of the
Protestant Reformation in France |
John Calvin
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highest mountain
peak in France |
Mont Blanc
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the young peasant
girl captured, burned at the stake after helping France win a Battle. |
Joan of Arc
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This French scientist
became famous because he taught the world how to protect against germs. |
Louis Pasteur
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French WWII hero who set
up a democratic government called the 5th Republic? |
Charles de Gaulle
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