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- Finland
- Helsinki
- France
- Paris
- Belgium
- Brussels
- Spain
- Madrid
- Portugal
- Lisbon
- The Netherlands
- Amsterdam
- Germany
- Berlin
- Norway
- Oslo
- Sweden
- Stockholm
- Switzerland
- Bern
- Italy
- Rome
- Austria
- Vienna
- Denmark
- Copenhagen
- Iceland
- Reykjavik
- Luxembourg
- Luxembourg
- What are the two islands off the coast of Italy?
- Sicily & Sardinia
- Wrote the children's book "Heidi."
- Johanna Spyri
- Wrote "Swiss Family Robinson"
- Johann Wyss
- Founded the International Red Cross, first person to win the Nobel Peace Prize
- Dunant
- The "Hero of Swiss Liberty"
- William Tell
- Cheese, chocolate, watches & music boxes
- Switzerland
- Mountains of Switzerland
- Alps
- A country that has no seacoast
- "Land-locked"
- Nations that have a policy against fighting in wars
- "Neutral"
- Favorite destination for daring mountain climbers
- Matterhorn
- Famous tower in Paris
- Eiffel
- French explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River
- Cartier
- French Scientist who taught the importance of protecting the body from germs
- Louis Pasteur
- French scientist who discovered radium
- Madame Curie
- Young French peasant burned at the stake for helping France defeat England
- Joan of Arc
- American silversmith whose family were French Huguenots
- Paul Revere
- Leader of the Protestant Reformation in France
- John Calvin
- French war hero from WWII who set up the Fifth Republic
- General Charles de Gaulle
- Highest mountain peak in the Alps
- Mont Blanc
- Leader of the Nazi party in Germany during WWII
- Hitler
- German musician, "Father of Modern Music"
- Bach
- German musician who wrote "The Messiah"
- Handel
- German musician who wrote music even after he turned deaf
- Beethoven
- German who was one of the greatest scientists ever
- Einstein
- Germany is often called...
- Land of the Reformation
- German city that was divided after WWII
- Berlin
- Europe's most important inland waterway
- Rhine
- Europe's 2nd longest river
- Danube
- Europe's longest river
- Volga
- Spanish bullfighters
- "Matadors"
- First explorer to sail around the world
- Magellan
- The peninsula of Spain & Portugal
- Iberian
- The mountains that divide Spain from the rest of Europe
- Pyrenees
- The body of water between the Iberian Peninsula and Africa
- Strait of Gibraltar
- Huge swamp in southern Spain
- The Tidelands
- Region of Spain known for its oranges
- Valencia
- The only country that borders Portugal
- Spain
- Capital of Greece
- Athens
- Italian artist who painted the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"
- da Vinci
- Italian artist who painted the Sistine Chapel
- Michelangelo
- First European to travel all the way across Asia
- Marco Polo
- Great Italian scientist who proved that the earth revolves around the sun
- Galileo
- "Home of the Renaissance"
- Italy
- Leaning Tower of
- Pisa
- Italian city known for its canals and gondolas
- Venice
- Mainland Europe's only active volcano
- Mt. Vesuvius
- Fascist leader of Italy during WWII
- Mussolini
- After the Pilgrims left England, they spent several years here before leaving for the New World
- the Netherlands
- Another name for The Netherlands -- a country famous for flowers, windmills and lowlands
- Holland
- The people of the Netherlands
- Dutch
- A dam-like barrier made of earth and stone
- dike
- Long, narrow inlet of the sea with high, rocky banks
- fjord
- Temporary shelter made of ice blocks
- igloo
- "Land of the Midnight Sun"
- Norway
- "Land of Fire and Ice"
- Iceland
- This country owns Greenland
- Denmark
- The world's largest island
- Greenland
- Nomadic people in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, who herd reindeer
- Lapps
- Permanently frozen ground
- permafrost
- The far northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and the interior of Iceland are _____ regions
- Tundra
- Europe is known as the ...
- "Birthplace of Western Civilization"
- Two types of governments in Eastern Europe
- Republics and Constitutional Monarchies
- The 5 peninsulas of Europe
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Scandinavian (Norway & Sweden)
Jutland (Denmark)
Iberian (Spain & Portugal)
Apennine (Italy)
Balkan (Greece) - High, broad arid plateau that covers most of Spain (Spanish for "plateau")
- Meseta
- Two main exports of Spain
- oranges and olives
- Spanish author who wrote "Don Quixote"
- Cervantes
- King of Spain
- Juan Carlos
- Spanish explorer who discovered the New World
- Columbus
- Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean
- Balboa
- First Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America
- Ponce De Leon
- Spanish explorer who conquered Mexico for Spain
- Cortez
- Spanish explorer who founded Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Mendoza
- Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
- DeSoto
- Spanish explorer who founded the city of St. Augustine, Florida
- Menendez
- Very important Portugese seaport
- Oporto
- The Age of Discovery was started by Portugal's King John I. His son, ______, led the way in the great age of exploration.
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- First European to sail to India by going around Africa
- Vasco de Gama
- Northern Italian valley drained by the Po River
- Po Valley
- Europe's highest active volcano
- Mr. Etna
- Form of government that lets people keep their private propert but takes away their freedoms
- Fascism
- Independent state that is world headquarters for the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome
- Vatican City
- World's largest Catholic church building
- St. Peter's Basilica
- boats used to transport people around the city of venice
- gondola
- Largest Greek island
- Crete
- Europe's highest peak
- Elbrus
- Queen who was beheaded during the French Revolution
- Queen Antoinette
- Reformed Protestants in France
- Huguenots
- Movement in France where philosophers challenged authority, government and religion
- The Enlightenment
- French philosophers who were part of the Enlightenment movement -- taught that man must apply human reasoning to all areas of human life (humanism)
- Voltaire and Rousseau
- One of history's most ruthless dictators, who ruled France after the French Revolution overturned the monarchy
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- A person who believes that business and industry should be taken away from individual owners and given to the government
- Socialist
- Famous cathedral in Paris
- Notre Dame
- Largest art museum in the world
- The Louvre
- Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Strauss were all composers who lived and performed in this capital city
- Vienna
- Country that ruled Germany during the 1600's - 1700's
- Prussia
- Famous king of Prussia who made Prussia a world power in the 1700's
- Frederick the Great
- Emperor of Germany is called the "____"
- "Kaiser"
- Another name for Nazi's
- National Socialist Party
- Two sides of World War II
- Allies and Axis
- Wall which the communists built to separate Communist East Germany from free West Germany.
- Berlin Wall
- Large forest in Germany that is the imaginary home of many storybook characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Hansel & Gretel.
- Black Forest
- What the Dutch used to pump water out from behind the dikes
- windmills
- Father of Dutch Liberties
- William the Silent, the Prince of Orange
- wooden shoes worn by the Dutch
- klompen
- "One of the best books about Holland ever written" -- even though it was written by an American
- "Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates"
- Fierce warriors who lived on the Scandinavian peninsula
- Vikings
- The world's largest lake
- Caspian
- Wrote many children's stories like "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Snow Queen"
- Hans Christian Anderson
- Most of the tundra is north of the Arctic Circle in the ______ ____
- Frigid Zone
- An area of low, wet, soft land
- marsh, swamp or bog
- A point on the mountain where it is so cold, trees can't grow there
- Timber Line
- Used to be called Eskimos, people who live in the tundra of Greenland, Siberia, Alaska and Canada
- Inuit
- Three main language groups of Europe
- Romance, Germanic and Slavik
- The 3 main international languages
- English, Spanish and French