Southern and Eastern Europe

Massifs

Massifs

The Pyrenees are characterized by flat-topped ____ [a body of mountain ranges formed by fault-line activity.]

Italian Peninsula

The Apennine Mountains run down the _____

The Alps

North of the Italian Peninsula- ____ [the most recognizable range of mountains on the European continent.]

Venice

Italian city built as a complicated system of canals.

Tungsten

Extremely rare heavy-metal element which is essential in high-tech industries.

City-States

Ancient Greece was a collection of ____ [each independent with its own form of government and society.]

Athens

The city-state of ____ introduced the concept of democracy to the world.

Sparta

The city-state of ____ was built on the glory of war.

Renaissance

1300s- ____ [from the French word for “rebirth”] started in Italy.

Social Welfare Systems

The aging population is beginning to strain the ____ of Southern European countries.

Italy, Spain, and Portugal

All speak Romance languages that evolved from Latin, the language of the Romans.

Greece

The Economic issues by ____ and other SE countries are causing tension within the EU.

Karst

____ refers to limestone bedrock sculpted into steep-sided cliffs and rocky columns.

Main-Danube Canal

The ____ provides an important connection that links the North Sea and Northwestern Europe with Eastern Europe and the Black Sea.

Continental Climate.

Most of the region

Latvia

71% of total electric power is from hydroelectricity.

Baltic Gold

Poland is famous for its amber, often called “____”.

Bauxite

____ is the main ore used to make aluminum.

Shatter Belt Region

Eastern Europe is known as a ____ [experienced political and territorial fracturing along cultural and ethnic lines.]

Celtic and Germanic

Slavs migrated from Asia thousands of years ago and settled in Eastern Europe alongside ____ tribes.

The Ottoman Empire

____ then ruled much of Southern Eastern Europe until the end of World War I.

Communist Soviet Union

After World War II, Eastern Europe fell under the control of the ____.

Yugoslavia

After the collapse of the USSR, power struggles by ethnic and political groups resulted in civil war throughout ____ [a country contains many nations].

Ethnic “cleansing”

____ resulted in certain ethnic groups being killed or expelled from the disputed territories where they lived.

Lack of funds

____ is affecting the education systems in some countries.