Geography Europe, Greece, and Italy Vocabulary Terms
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- European Union
- an orginazition of European nations whose members cooperate on economic, social, and political issues
- hydroelectric power
- electricity made by water-powered engines
- North Atlantic Drift
- warm ocean current that helps keep Europe's climate mild
- seafaring
- using the sea for transportation
- fossil fuels
- source of energy from an ancient plant and animal remains
- Alps
- Europe's tallest mountain range, stretching across southern Europe
- renewable energy sources
- sources of energy able to replaced through ongoing natural processes
- peninsula
- a body of land surrounded by water on 3 sides
- Northern European Plain
- vast area of flat or gently rolling land from France to Russia
- nationalism
- pride and loyalty to one's country
- compulsary
- required
- Vatican
- the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City and the political and religious center of the Roman Catholic Church
- coalition
- an alliance or partnership, often a temporary one
- fascism
- a political philosophy that provides blind loyalty to the state and a strong central government controlled by a powerful dictator
- Romance Language
- any of the languages that developed from Roman language Latin, such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian
- Byzantine Empire
- the eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived for 1000 years after the fall of Rome