Midterm 3 Prout Notes

Question 1

Prout’s study area/ language they speak

Answer 1

Sankt Moirtz Switzerland

Romanstch

Question 2

Biggest city in Europe

Answer 2

Moscow

Question 3

Europe as a global actor

Answer 3

• Initiated globalization
• “exploration and imperialism”
• global affairs: economy+

Question 4

Third largest concentration of humans

Answer 4

742 million

Europe

Question 5

Europe created the first….

Answer 5

Demographic transition model

Question 6

Self identity of Europe

Answer 6

lingua
religion
genetics

Question 7

Europe is a historical region rather than a

Answer 7

physical continent

Question 8

Separates Europe from Asia

Answer 8

Ural Mountains

Question 9

Europe is the western extension of what landmass

Answer 9

Eurasian Landmass

Question 10

Geneva

Answer 10

international city; where the League of Nations was going to be Headquaters, infrastructure, protest for UN about landmines

Question 11

largest in population besides Russia

Answer 11

Germany

Question 12

Indo-European language families

Answer 12

Germanic, Slavic, Romance

Question 13

Religions of Europe

Answer 13

Christianity, secularism, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox

Question 14

Race

Answer 14

Caucasian/Genetics

Question 15

Northern Europe religion

Answer 15

strong individualism; Luther; Protestant

Question 16

Eastern Europe religion

Answer 16

Communist ideology; very high secularism

Question 17

Characteristics of Europe

Answer 17

Stabilized Population
Well Educated
Wealthy 
Healthy
urbanized 
Industrialized 
Transpiration
Freely elected Governments 
Continuous settlement

Question 18

Fjords

Answer 18

when ice forms the valleys get filled with sea water

Norway

Question 19

Big 4

Answer 19

France, Germany, Britain, Italy

Question 20

Peripheral of Europe

Answer 20

f. Yugoslavia, Russia

Question 21

EU

Answer 21

Franco-German alliance

Inner 6

Question 22

NATO

Answer 22

Anglo-American

Question 23

France

Answer 23

Paris; Primate City

64.3 million

Question 24

Germany

Answer 24

Berlin {Divided into sectors then reunited)

81.1 million

Question 25

United Kingdom

Answer 25

Great Britain and Northern Ireland (island)
Uk/Britain
Capitol: London
65.1 million

Question 26

Italy

Answer 26

Rome; 62.5 million

Question 27

Eastern Europe

Answer 27

• Communist legacy
• more unified
• dominant culture Russian group
• Political fragmentation (slavic and orthodox majorities)
• expansive, barriers are swamps and forests

Question 28

Warsaw pact

Answer 28

Soviet answer to NATO (cold war)
Satellite States:
Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria

Question 29

Balkans

Answer 29

Southeast Europe

Balkanization

Question 30

Former Yugoslavia

Answer 30

Land of the Southern Slavs
Serb, Croatia, Slovene
after Tito left after WWII, ethnic cleansing occurred with violent breakup

Question 31

15 Soviet Socialist Republics

Answer 31

Union of SSR
Russian #1 dominat group about 50% of pop
founded 1922

Question 32

Baltic republics

Answer 32

northwest

Question 33

Trans-caucas

Answer 33

southwest

Question 34

Central Asian

Answer 34

South-central

Question 35

Russian SFSR

Answer 35

successor to USSR

Question 36

Ukraine and Belarus

Answer 36

slavic little brothers to Russia

Question 37

Ukraine

Answer 37

-Kiev
-East-West dynamic
East identify with russia west with ukraine
-Chernobyl
-Orange revolution

Question 38

Baltic republics

Answer 38

didnt join CIS (commonwealth of independent states)
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia

Question 39

Belarus

Answer 39

last dictatorship in europe

Question 40

Armenia

Answer 40

in conflict with azerbaijan and in kahoots with russia

Question 41

Azerbaijan

Answer 41

Muslim and Turkic speaking

Question 42

Kazakhstan

Answer 42

Turkic speaking, integration with russia, rocket program ussr and russia, nuclear weapon testing

Question 43

Tajikistan

Answer 43

not turkic - indo-iranian; connection to iran