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Define the term Renaissance g |
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The Renaissance is a rebirth of interest in learning. |
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The Renaissace thinkes reexamined the ideas of ________1.______ and _____2.______ thinkers. People learned again about the ancient world's great poetry, plays, ideas, ideas, buildings, and sculptures. |
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European thinkers were engaging in humanisti thinking, what is humanism? |
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Humanism emphasized the importance of human nature and the abiliting of human beings to change the world. |
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What was the first country to engage in the slave trade? |
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Where did Christopher Columbus land when he was searching for a shortcut to the Indian Ocean spice trade in 1492? |
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The Americans or West Indies |
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True or Flase Trades and merchants formed the nw middle class in Europe |
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What is Absolute Monarchy? |
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Exercised almost complete control over there sybject. |
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Taking over other Countries and turning them into colonies. |
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Why was the European Coal and Steel Cmmunity created in 1951? |
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To control their steel and coal industirier, and there long term goal ofavoiding future wars. |
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What was the name of the treaty that created the European Union in 1992? |
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What was the percentage of Jewish poles killed dring the Holocaust? |
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True or False Western Europe is now becoming more prosperous becasue goods and people can now move freely across its borders? |
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True or false Under communism, people were guaranteed jobs. Now, many poles emigrated to other places in europe to find work? |
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What was the first nation to emerge from the old Ottoman Empire? |
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What group attacked Croatian cirties and used terroe to drive out the peple? |
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When te Serbs withdrew fro Kosovo what troops took their place to keep the peace? |
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NATO (north Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
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True of False When the Soviet Union first collapsed, Business in Mocow boomed? |
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What percentage of Russans still live in poverty? |
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Ture of Fale Criminal gangs, in Russia, often force honest people to pay them money? |
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Whatwas the name of the republic that russia sent troops into to keep it from secding in 1991? |
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Ture or False Today descendants of the Slavs make up most Eastern Europe's ethnic groups? |
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A group of people that chare culture, languages, or religions that sets them apart from their neighbors. |
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What country dominated Eastern Europe after the second world war? |
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The Soviet Union of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
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What two main ehnic groups lived i Czechoslovakia? |
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Nmae tree important contributions to cililization made by either the Greeks or the Romans? |
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1. Government 2. laws 3. poetry |
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name five eastern europe states |
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poland, russia ,belarus, Uuraine, and hungary. |
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name five western europe states |
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Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Iceland |
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