GEOGRAPHY AND CULTURE OF EUROPE

GUIDE 1
(Reading material: The Europeans - Introduction)
Before getting into the content of the class, in pairs or small groups define the

following concepts:

Region

Europe

European

After the class you should be able to solve the following tasks:
1- Define and explain the use of each type of region: Instituted, Naively Perceived
and Denoted
2- Why do we say that Europe is not technically a continent?
3- Why do we say that the Greeks invented Europe? What happened to the concept
of Europe during Roman times?
4- How is the Fall of Rome related to the reappearance of Europe as a concept?
5- What is Europe like today as an instituted region?
6- Mention the main characteristics of the "Personality of Europe" (Ostergren & Le
Bosse, 2011, p. 9) in the following stages:
Humanism - Enlightenment - Nationalism and Romanticism - The Commercial
Industrial Society
7- Why has Europe been called a "Family of cultures" (Ostergren & Le Bosse, 2011,
p. 18)?
8- How is Europe divided according to its cultural variations?