Europe Flashcards
This Jewish ethnic division has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and Northern Africa. Following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, members of this group that did not convert to Catholicism found refuge in Northern Africa, Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
Today, the term is used to describe West Asian Jewish communities that have adopted this group’s liturgy, laws and/or customs.
Sephardi Jews / Sephardim
What European capital’s central castle and city hall were the sites of its two famous “defenestrations” in 1419 and 1618?
Prague
What Ukrainian city that had 14,000 residents thirty-five years ago has a population of only 690 people today?
Chernobyl
The newspaper “Il Popolo d’Italia” was founded by this person in 1914 after their split with the Socialist Party.
Benito Mussolini
This Italian word meaning “bundle” or “sheath” was used to describe political movements in the late-19th and 20th centuries.
Fascio (Fascism)
Which major European city was besieged by Ottoman forces in 1529 and 1683, both times unsuccessfully?
Vienna
A famous embroidered cloth produced to record and commemorate the victory of William the Conqueror and justify his claim to the English throne was commissioned by William’s half-brother, Odo, who was the bishop of what Catholic diocese?
Bayeux
This European treaty, initially signed in 1985 and implemented in 1995, removed all internal border control between its signatories.
Schengen Agreement
He is the first known European to set foot on North America.
Leif Erikson
The representative body called the Estates-General met in 1614 and didn’t meet again until this year.
1789
Beginning of the French Revolution
This crossbow-wielding Swiss folk hero was an important symbol as the country developed its national identity throughout the 20th century. He is known for inciting open rebellion against foreign rules in the 14th century by assassinating the tyrannical Habsburg bailiff Albercht Gessler.
William Tell
The potency of the longbow as a dominant weapon on the battlefields of Western Europe was established in August 1346 during what battle, a thorough and devastating victory for the English army led by King Edward III over King Philip VI’s French forces?
Battle of Crécy
In 962, Pope John XII declared what palindromically named Teutonic king as emperor, an act marked by many historians as the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire?
Otto
What was the name of the Spanish fascist party created in 1933 by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, which Francisco Franco merged in 1937 with various nationalist parties to create the National Movement?
Falange
Born under Ottoman rule in 1895, he was crowned King of Albania in 1928
Zog I
Also called “Leonardo the Traveller from Pisa” in his lifetime, he popularized the Indo-Arabic numeral system to Europe
Fibonacci
