Unit 5 Questions

1. How could one say Europe is a peninsula made of peninsulas?

2. What are the four major mountain chains in Europe, and generally where are they
located?
3. What kind of energy does France rely on? What does Ireland do for fuel?
4. Despite its latitude, why does much of Europe have a very comfortable climate?
5. Why doesn’t the climate around the Mediterranean Sea extend further away?
6. Why is the Scandinavian Peninsula often called the “Land of the Midnight Sun”?
7. What are the Dutch known for building?
8. What is Venice most known for? What are two problems Venice currently faces?
9. What form of government was invented in Athens? Rome?
10. What was the Renaissance?
11. What kind of architecture did Europeans learn from the Greeks and Romans?
12. What is the European Union?
13. Who was Charlemagne?
14. What was the Reformation?
15. What is nationalism?
16. Why did WWII start?
17. Describe three details about life in modern European cities.
18. From the 1700s to WWII, who had the strongest empire in the world?
19. What was the Magna Carta, and when was it signed?
20. When did the Industrial Revolution begin?
21. Why have the British and Irish had issues?
22. What empire took over Eastern Europe in the 1300s?
23. Why did WWI start? Why do we call it a world war?
24. Why is Eastern Europe so much more unstable than the West?