Europe

Question 1

Why is Europe so warm?

Answer 1

Northern Atlantic Ocean current creates marine west coast. Humid continental, and mediterraninan climates

Question 2

Dikes

Answer 2

earthen wall

Question 3

Polders

Answer 3

land reclaimed from the sea

Question 4

Rotterdam’s importance

Answer 4

1. Easy to get to
2. At the mouth of the Rhine River (navigable river)
3. Rhine river is connected to the Danube river through locks and canals

Question 5

Energy sources

Answer 5

Geothermal (Iceland) and Coal (Eastern)

Question 6

Cause of WW1

Answer 6

Reaction to imperialism, militarism, nationalism, alliances, and the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand started it all.

Question 7

Feudalism

Answer 7

1. no huge empires, more of a lull in time, changed when the renaissance happened
2. nobles hold power
3. similiar to slavery

Question 8

Renaissance

Answer 8

rebirth in learning (music, art, theatre)

Question 9

Greek and Roman contributions

Answer 9

1. Greeks created first democracy

2. The Roman Empire (1,000 years) created developed roads and spread language (romance)

Question 10

Language divisions of Europe

Answer 10

Germanic, Slavic, and romance languages

Question 11

sequent occupance

Answer 11

process of settlement by successive groups of people, each group creating a culture landscape

Question 12

Cold War

Answer 12

1. Communism vs. Democracy (US verse Soviet Union)
2. East vs West
3. Warsaw Pact vs NATO
4. Cold War was fought in small wars
5. Communism fails in Eastern Europe (‘89 to ‘91) Berlin Wall goes down
6. More devolution, ethnic lines
7. Yugoslavia

Question 13

Satellite States

Answer 13

1. States controlled by the Soviet Union

2. mis-developed countries

Question 14

Divisions/ legacy

Answer 14

the action of separating something into parts, or the process of being separated

Question 15

U.K political divisions

Answer 15

Most of Britain is protestant, but the north part of Britain known as Northern Ireland is Roman Catholic. This created a lot of violence

Question 16

constitutional monarchy

Answer 16

King and Queen are the head of the state but a parliament led by the prime minister serves as the law-making branch.

Question 17

Switzerland’s confederation

Answer 17

group of states joined together for a common purpose. They use this as their government because they want to preserve neutrality and because they are multilingual

Question 18

Switzerland’s cantons

Answer 18

Switzerland has 26 states

Question 19

Ethno-nationalism

Answer 19

wanting a country for your ethnicity

Question 20

Autonomy

Answer 20

self governing country or region

Question 21

Devolution

Answer 21

Breakdown of country

Question 22

Balkanization

Answer 22

to divide a region or territory into small, often hostile units

Question 23

Why was the split of Yugoslavia so violent

Answer 23

Serbian nationalism. Serbia does not like being split up

Question 24

Czechoslovakia vs Yugoslavia

Answer 24

Czech had a lot of Serbians in the country and the Serbians did not like being split up

Question 25

micro-states

Answer 25

countries that are very small ex: Monaco and Vatican City

Question 26

cultural roads

Answer 26

1. people constantly crossing through
2. In the middle of Africa, Europe, and Asia
   Roman Empire- Catholicism
   Bzantine Empire- Eastern Orthodox
   Ottoman Empire- Islam

Question 27

Balkan Diversity

Answer 27

Balkan peninsula is a culture cross road

Question 28

multilingual

Answer 28

country that speaks multiple languages

Switzerland, Belgium, and Netherlands

Question 29

E. Europe’s Mis-Developed

Answer 29

1. Yugoslavia broke into 7 different countries
2. Communism collapsed so they had to become a democracy
3. people are having less kids bc it’s expensive and they are smart enough to know that

Question 30

command to market economy was easier for…

Answer 30

countries that were close to Western Europe

Question 31

who made early progress in the market economy

Answer 31

Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic

Question 32

who made late progress in the market economy

Answer 32

Bulgaria and Romania

Joined EU in 2004

Question 33

Why was it so difficult to go from command economy to market economy

Answer 33

1. Legacy of Soviets wasn’t good
2. Econ Efficiency not emphasized
3. Old and Decaying Infrastructure

Question 34

Why is Europe’s population aging

Answer 34

Europe is becoming developed so people are having less kids and more people are in urban areas and educated

Question 35

What are the negatives of Europe’ aging population

Answer 35

1. Population will continue to decrease
2. economy will shrink if young workers can’t fill all the retired workers jobs
3. Gov will spend money on the retired
4. less workers = less taxes

Question 36

European Union monetary policy

Answer 36

When Euro became the currency, the monetary was made into one central bank

Question 37

Why did Europe take on the policy of expansion

Answer 37

1. increase in economic power

2. Can become one giant economy

Question 38

What are the negatives of the EU expansion

Answer 38

1. Country could become divided again
2. Too powerful
3. Upset other countries
4. poor countries could drag the EU down

Question 39

EU’s fiscal policy

Answer 39

controls how much money a gov collects in taxes and how much it spends. A country can only spend as much as they make in taxes. If they use up their money they have to borrow it from other countries.
Each country kept their own fiscal policy

Question 40

Euro Dept Crisis

Answer 40

1 monetary policy - 28 fiscal policies
When countries didn’t have enough money to pay each other back then it brings down the economies of each individual countries which brings down the EU

Question 41

Solutions to the aging population

Answer 41

1. increase population at a substantial rate
2. accept immigrants
3. pay people to have kids