Human Geography of Europe: Diversity, Conflict, Union Chapter 13

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Human Geography of Europe Diversity, Conflict,
UnionChapter 13

• Section 1, 2, 3 4

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Section 1 Part A Mediterranean Europe

• 1. Birthplace of democracy Greek science,
  philosophy, drama, art helped shape modern
  culture
• 2. Its republican government serves as a model
  the spread of Christianity was promoted by the
  empires roads
• 3. Birthplace of the Renaissance promoted trade
  with Southwest Asia
• 4. Established an empire that promoted the spread
  of Christianity the Spanish language

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Part B.

• 1. Distinct minority and language group that
  wants independence from Spain
• 2. has created housing shortages, pollution,
  traffic jams

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Section 2 Part AWestern Europe

• 1. Both French and Germanic languages are spoken
• 2. France is mostly catholic the Netherlands,
  Switzerland, Germany contain both Catholics
  Protestants
• 3. nations have become rivals
• 4. Both the Holocaust the Berlin Wall divided
  Europe in the recent past

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Part B

• 1. Exports dairy products produces agricultural
  products has major manufacturing industries,
  high-tech service industries, banking
• 2. home to musical geniuses such as Bach,
  Beethoven, Mozart home to important painters
  such as Van Eyck, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Monet,
  Cezanne, Gaugin
• 3. high standard of living, pleasant cities,
  people socialize in public places
• 4. ethnic/racist tensions.

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Section 3 part ANorthern Europe

• 1. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
• 2. United Kingdom, Ireland
• 3. The Sami other migrating people
• 4. Celtic, then Roman, then Germanic
• 5. No Nordic country ever became a major empire
• 6. British Empire, which strongly affected the
  rest of the world.
• 7. Germanic Sami language Protestant
• 8. Celtic languages and English Protestant, but
  Catholic in Ireland

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• 9. Henrik Ibsen, Ingmar Bergman
• 10. William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth,
  Charlotte Bronte, James Joyce
• 11. child-care allowances and national health
  insurance
• 12. national health insurance
• 13. smorgasbord sauna winter sports such as
  cross-country skiing and ski jumping
• 14. tea time horse riding, horse jumping, fox
  hunting rugby, cricket

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Part B

• 1. a representative lawmaking body, whose members
  are elected or appointed
• 2. began in Britain, in part because of iron
  coal deposits motivated empire building
• 3. section between Glasgow and Edinburgh,
  so-called because it has so many high-tech
  companies
• 4. common currency of the European Union

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Section 4 Part AEastern Europe

• 1. People moving between Asia Europe have tried
  to control the region since ancient times.
• 2. The region, or parts of the region, have been
  alternately under the rule of the Romans, the
  Ottomans, the Magyars (Hungary only), the
  Austrians.
• 3. Each separate group has wanted to establish
  its own separate unit, hostile to other units
• 4. Four decades of domination have led to
  instability after the collapse of Communism.

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Part B

• 1. Fall of communism has meant a return to ethnic
  loyalties and civil war in Serbia
• 2. Many languages are spoken, some of which have
  no relationship to surrounding languages.
• 3. Some nations are Islamic, others are Eastern
  Orthodox, and some have Jewish or Protestant
  minorities.
• 4. Eastern European minority groups, including
  Jews and Gypsies, have often faced discrimination.