Chapter 12 - Europe Today

Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels are three regions of which country?

Catholic descendants of Celts.

"breadbasket of Europe"

Which European country still has strong ties to Russia?

the source of the Danube River is in which country?

What body of water separates Great Britain from the continent of Europe?

Which phrase describes historic conditions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary?

One of Ireland's languages.

Most Scandinavians are

Which is the smallest Scandinavian country with high population density?

Poland and the Baltic Republics have moved toward democracy and ______ economies

Which country has polders reclaimed from the sea?

Which country has more than 60 million people and relies on tourism, wines, cheeses, and high-tech industries?

What is the capital of Spain?

Which Baltic Republic has the highest average incomes and export telecommunications equipment?

_________ maintains a command economy and strong government

The Irish trace their ancestry to the

What provision was included in the Petition of Right that Parliament forced King Charles I of England to sign in 1628?

Which country  was separated by communist but reunited in 1990?

One of the original republics of the Soviet Union.

Revolutions here led to the rise of democracy

Carried out ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia

In a ___________, the government decides what, how, and for whom goods will be produced.

England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

In the Netherlands, wetlands that have been drained, called __________, have rich farming soil.

The Danube River flows through the middle of this capital city

Why did more than one million Irish people die in the 1840s?

Which industry gives employment to more than 1 in 12 workers in France?

Smallest independent country in the world.

Parliamentary democracy with 60 million people.

Home of great composers like Mozart.

Neutral country during wars.

Farmers outnumber factory workers here.

Which country and its 2,000 islands are often shaken by earthquakes?

Focusing on certain economic activities in order to make the most advantageous use of a nation's resources is called

In which country can one hear Castilian, Catalonian, and Basque spoken?

What is the capital of Denmark?

A country allowing a region within its borders a certain amount of self-rule is known as ___________.

__________ has been troubled by a history of violence between Catholics and Protestants.

Iceland's hot springs and geysers are caused by which of the following?

Labor group that helped bring down communism

Reunified as a nation in 1990.

Refusing to take side in wars, which country enjoyed a stable democratic government for 700 years?

In a ______, a king or queen serves as a ceremonial head of state but elected officials actively run the government.

Ancestors of the Hungarians.

In __________, the southern part of the country is poorer and less industrialized than the northern part.