Unit 6 Europe

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Unit 6 Europe
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Europe is smaller than the continents of North
America, South America, and Africa.
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Three European countries that built great empires
were Great Britain, France, and Spain.
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Monarchs were in power in most European countries
as they became empires.
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As European explorers came to the Americas they
spread their cultures to the new world.
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Europe is considered to be a peninsula of
peninsulas. As a result, most countries depend
on the sea for much of their livelihood.
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Europe has long been the seat of many instances
of conflict and cooperation between and among
cultures. An example of cooperation would be the
European Union.
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As a result of the formation of the European
union, many countries economies were effected.
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Most European countries today have a limited
government.
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Countries borrow ( cultural borrowing ) from one
another to increase interdependence, to conquer
and conquest others, and to make up for the long
distances between them.
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An example of cultural borrowing that much of
todays world got from Ancient Greece is the
olympics.
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People moved from the Middle East to modern-day
Europe to escape overcrowding, clashes between
other cultures, and to borrow from the European
culture.
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Trading in Europe has been a way of life for
centuries. Location and physical geography are
the reason.
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The U.S. and Europe continuously exchange
cultural ideas and beliefs.
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In the 1980s and 1990s the computer helped
Eastern Europe get information about activities
and freedoms in Western Europe and the U.S.
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You can divide Europe along the Iron Curtain but
dividing east and west.
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England, France, Spain, and Italy are all allies
of the United States.
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Germany was at one time divided into two parts.
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Nazi Germany was a dictatorship. Todays Germany
is a democracy.
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Hitler was elected to power in Germany. His
unlimited government led to discrimination
against certain cultural groups, loss of
individual rights to travel and hold jobs, and
forced participation by men in the military.
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In Great Britain most of the political power is
in the parliament.
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Scandinavia has fewer areas of economic activity
than other parts of Europe because political
systems are repressive.
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Ireland split into two countries mainly due to
religion.
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Germany has had many forms of government through
the last 100 years.Dictatorship- Democracy
Communism Monarchy - Totalitarianism
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