Pearson World Geography Chapter 9 Europe in Modern Times

A political of centralized and unlimited government power

A movement during the 1600s and 1700s that applies observation and reason to human affairs

The second major global conflict of the 1900s

A church court that was set up to try people accused of heresy or not following church rules

Political movement that removed the French king from power and formed a republic

Changes that the Catholic Church made that helped keep Catholicism strong

A technique used by Renaissance painters of portraying 3-dimensional space on a flat surface

A wall that Germany built to prevent people from escaping & symbolized Cold War divisions

The mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during World War II

Large, commercial farms

A U.S. plan that offered money to help European countries recover from the war 

A belief that individual's freedoms should be protected & the government should be limited

A belief that workers, rather than private individuals should control the means of production

A belief that stresses maintaining political structures & gradual, not rapid, change

A deep, worldwide economic slump that lasted through the 1930s which caused hardship worldwide

Small, triangular-sailed oceangoing ships

A series of major advances in science

System that stresses national strength & that the state is more important than individuals

A route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America

An economic and political system in which the state, run by the Communist Party takes over

A long period of hostility between the Soviet Union and the democratic West

Act that limited the monarch's power & listed the rights of Parliament & the English people

Religious movement that led to changes and the emergence of non-Catholic or Protestant churches

A theory which stated that the planets orbited around the sun

Pattern of Atlantic trade that carried goods & enslaved people between Europe, Africa & N Amer.

Shift from hand tools driven by animal or human power to large-scale machinery powered by fuels

The Great War or first global conflict

The study of secular or nonreligious subjects such as history and philosophy

Time period that followed the Middle Ages which brought about "rebirth" or renewed interest 

An economic and political partnership which worked toward unifying Europe

The science of making accurate maps and globes