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History Test 13

Chapter 14

TermDefinition
Rome the capital city of Italy
Pisa the city with the famous "leaning tower"
Mt. Vesuvius mainland Europe's highest active volcano
Sicily the island at the toe of Italy's boot
Renaissance Italy is often called the "Home of the _________."
Reformation Germany is often called the "Land of the ________."
World War II Adolf Hitler's desire to conquer led to this
Berlin the capital of Germany
musicians Bach, Handel, and Beethoven were three famous German ______.
Germany the country that was reunited in the spring of 1990
Berlin the German city that was divided after World War II
Rhine Europe's most important inland waterway
Adolf Hitler the leader of the National Socialist Party in Germany
Albert Einstein one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time
John Calvin the leader of the Protestant Reformation in France
Charles de Gaulle the World War II hero who became president of the Fifth Republic
Louis Pasteur the scientist who taught the world how to protect against germs
Joan of Arc young peasant girl who led the French army to victory, but was later captured and burned at the stake
Napoleon Bonaparte the French emperor who wanted to conquer all of the world
Mont Blanc the highest peak in France
Paris the capital of France
Eiffel Tower a famous French landmark
Iberian Spain and Portugal are on this Peninsula
Madrid the capital of Spain
Africa the Strait of Gibraltar separates the Iberian Peninsula from this continent
The Tidelands the huge swamp in southern Spain
Magellan the first man to sail around the world
bulls Matadors in Spain fight these animals
Pyrenees the Iberian Peninsula is separated from the rest of Europe by these Mountains
Leonardo da Vinci Italian painter of the Mona Lisa
Mussolini Italian dictator and leader of the Fascists
Galileo a great scientist
Marco Polo first European to travel all the way across Asia
Michelangelo Italian sculptor of David and Moses
Norway "Land of the Midnight Sun"
Oslo the capital of Norway
fjords Norway's coast has many long, narrow inlets of the sea with high, rock banks called __________.
Jutland Denmark is on this Peninsula
Hans Christian Andersen the most famous writer from Denmark
Greenland the world's largest island
Iceland the "Land of Fire and Ice"
tundra North of the Arctic Circle in the Frigid Zone are these regions
timber line the point in which no trees grow in the tundra region
igloos Inuits sometimes live in these temporary snow-blocked shelters
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