Unit 2 - Europe Vocab

When the ground is permanently frozen, it is called

Information made to influence people’s opinions or advance an organization or party’s ideas Ex: campaigns, commercials

A peninsula is a body of land surrounded on all four sides by water

Great and often violent change

A form of government in which citizens choose the nation’s leaders by voting for them

A way of working in which each persons works on only one part of the product

A strong sense of loyalty to one’s country

After a war, money is sometimes paid as punishment, usually by the aggressors in the conflict

A person who “protested” Catholic practices; today, a member of a non-Catholic Christian church

Economic/social/political system based on the teaching of Karl Marx, which advocated the elimination of private property

An alliance is

A society where people with different nationalities, languages, religions and ethnicities live together

Starts “Modern Age” AD 1350; people had a love for education, art and science; sparked curiosity and enthusiasm for life

The common currency of the European Union is the dollar

A system of government in which the government controls government resources

An economic system that allows private ownership and open competition of businesses

Economy driven by forces that include competition, supply and demand

A trade alliance among many European countries, formerly called the Common Market

The countries that have adopted the Euro as money

A nation with a strong national government headed by elected leaders is a republic