A | B |
Danube | Longest river in Europe |
Polders | reclaimed land in the Netherlands |
Chernozem | black earth of European plains |
European Union | economic alliance of Europe |
Big Ben | Large clock in London |
Louvre | Famous art museum of Paris |
chalet | houses with steep roofs found in the mountains of Europe |
tiled roofs | type of roof found around the Mediterranean |
castles | stone fortresses of the Middle Ages |
Pyrenees | seperates Spain from France |
Iberian | Peninsula spain and Portugal are on |
Scandanavian | peninsula Norway, Sweden, and Finland are located |
Jutland | peninsula where Denmark is located. Looks like "middle finger" |
Balkan | Peninsula where Greece is located |
Thames | River London was built on |
Chunnel | Connects England to France and Europe |
Democracy | Started in Greece and Rome (government) |
Seine | Paris was built on an island in this river |
Industrial Revolution | period when machines began to be used to mass produce products |
communism | government under which much of Eastern Europe lived under until it fell in 1989. |