history

Europe

“The birthplace of western civilization”

Great Britain

Europe’s largest island

Iceland

Europe’s western most island

Crete

Greece’s largest city

Peloponnesus

Island/peninsula at the bottom of Greece

Vatican City

The worlds smallest independent state

San Marino

The worlds oldest independent republic

Marianas Terence

Deepest place on earth

Matthew Murray

Pathfinder of the seas

Elevation

Height above altitude

3.5

For every 1000 feet of increase how many degrees does the temperature drop

Geothermal

Energy derived from the earths internal heat

Substincence farming

Only making enough food for you family

Cartography

Art of making maps

Mercador

Gives the shape projection but distorts the size type of map projection

Statistics

What term means numerical facts and figures

Adinirum Judson

Father of American foreign missions

Borneo

The worlds third largest island

Philippians

Only agent country work Catholicism is the main religion

Shinto

Oldest realign on in Japan

Shang Kai Shek

Who led the nationalist to Taiwan?

Mt Fugi

Japans highest peak

Plateaued of Tibet

The roof of the world

Talklamacon

Worlds most barren wasteland

Chin

What dynasty built the Great Wall of China

Marco Polo

Whose journey to China revived the trade in the far east

ulanbitar

Capitol of Mongolia

Caste system

What is the strict division of social classes

New deli

Capital of India

Anta luging

Who was Iran’s leader that reinstated Islamic law

Iran

Second largest producer of oil

Cosicstan

Country used as a testing site for nuclear weapons

Afghanistan

Central Asian country never annexed by the Soviet Union

Fergana valley

Central ages, most populous region

Baghdad

Capital of Iraque

Meca and Modena

Two holy cities of Saudi Arabia

Sudan Hussein

Iraqi dictator who invented Kuwait

Airfat

Original leader of the PLO

Phonesians

Great sea barring merchants of Lebanon

Damascus

Capital of Cerea

1948

Year Israel became a nation

Shared ancestry

Root of conflict in the Middle East

Dispersion

What marked the beginning of nations

Sues canal

Separates Egypt from Asia

Dead Sea

Lowest point on land

Arabian peninsula

Worlds largest peninsula

Himalayas

Largest and highest mountain range

Malae

Largest archipelago

Great Britain

Europes largest island

Crete

Largest Greek island

Venice

city known for its canals

Prince Henry the navigator

Who founded a school of navigation

San Marino

The worlds oldest republic

Vatican City

The worlds smallest independent state

Rhine

Europes most important inland waterway

Mont blonk

Highest peek in the alps

Austria

Country known for its crystal glassware

Lictanstice

Tiny monarchy between Switzerland and Austria

Martin Luther

Who began the Protestant reformation

West

Which side of Germany was free

Hamburg

What city was a major city of trade ever since the Middle Ages

Cantons

Name given to the small partially self-governing districts in Switzerland

European Union

What was established in Europe that aloud free trade

Polder

Term for the land that was rested from the sea

The haig

Where is the seat of government located in the Netherlands

Rotterdam

Europes leading port

Belgium

Country known for its lace

Ireland

Known as the Emerald Isle

Catholicism

Realigning of Ireland

Shannon

British isles longest river

Fiords

Long narrow inlets of water with steep sides

Stalkhome

Venice of the north

Leif Ericsson

First modern European to read North America

Potatoes

Famine of what crop in Ireland

Copenhagen

Largest city metropolitan center in Scandinavia

Recyavic

Europes northernmost capitol

Althing

Europes oldest parliament

Lake becail

Worlds deepest freshwater lake

Ivan the terrible

Who was Russias first tzar

Ukraine

Largest European country after Russia

Stalin

What leader of Russia caused starvation in Ukrainian

Estonian, Latvia, and Lithuania

All there of the Baltic states

Romania

Country with the largest settlement of gypsies