Title: Unit 6 Europe
1Unit 6 Europe
2Europe is smaller than the continents of North
America, South America, and Africa.
3Three European countries that built great empires
were Great Britain, France, and Spain.
4Monarchs were in power in most European countries
as they became empires.
5As European explorers came to the Americas they
spread their cultures to the new world.
6Europe is considered to be a peninsula of
peninsulas. As a result, most countries depend
on the sea for much of their livelihood.
7Europe has long been the seat of many instances
of conflict and cooperation between and among
cultures. An example of cooperation would be the
European Union.
8As a result of the formation of the European
union, many countries economies were effected.
9Most European countries today have a limited
government.
10Countries borrow ( cultural borrowing ) from one
another to increase interdependence, to conquer
and conquest others, and to make up for the long
distances between them.
11An example of cultural borrowing that much of
todays world got from Ancient Greece is the
olympics.
12People moved from the Middle East to modern-day
Europe to escape overcrowding, clashes between
other cultures, and to borrow from the European
culture.
13Trading in Europe has been a way of life for
centuries. Location and physical geography are
the reason.
14The U.S. and Europe continuously exchange
cultural ideas and beliefs.
15In the 1980s and 1990s the computer helped
Eastern Europe get information about activities
and freedoms in Western Europe and the U.S.
16You can divide Europe along the Iron Curtain but
dividing east and west.
17England, France, Spain, and Italy are all allies
of the United States.
18Germany was at one time divided into two parts.
19Nazi Germany was a dictatorship. Todays Germany
is a democracy.
20Hitler was elected to power in Germany. His
unlimited government led to discrimination
against certain cultural groups, loss of
individual rights to travel and hold jobs, and
forced participation by men in the military.
21In Great Britain most of the political power is
in the parliament.
22Scandinavia has fewer areas of economic activity
than other parts of Europe because political
systems are repressive.
23Ireland split into two countries mainly due to
religion.
24Germany has had many forms of government through
the last 100 years.Dictatorship- Democracy
Communism Monarchy - Totalitarianism
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