Chapter 12
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the cultural geography of europe
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ethnic group | group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics |
| ethnic cleansing | the expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups |
| refugee | one who flees his or her home for safety |
| urbanization | the movement of people from rural areas into cities |
| city-state | in Ancient Greece, independent community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands |
| Middle Ages | the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500 |
| feudalism | in medieval Europe and Japan, system of government in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty |
| Crusades | series of religious wars (A.D. 1100-1300) in which European Christians tried to retake Palestine from Muslim rule |
| Renaissance | in Europe, a 300-year period of renewed interest in classical learning and the arts, beginning in the 1300s |
| Reformation | religious movement that began in Germany in the 1400s, leading to the establishment of Protestant churches |
| Enlightenment | a movement during the 1700s, emphasizing the importance of reason and questioning traditions and values |
| industrial capitalism | an economic system in which business leaders use profits to expand their companies |
| communism | society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production |
| reparations | a payment for damages |
| Holocaust | the mass killings of 6 million Jews by Germany's Nazi leaders during World War II |
| Cold War | power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II |
| European Union | an organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods, services, and workers can move freely among member countries |
| dialect | local form of a language used in a particular place or by a certain group |
| language family | group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language |
| Good Friday Peace Agreement | paved the way for Protestant and Roman Catholic communities to share political power in Northern Ireland |
| romanticism | artistic style emphasizing individual emotions that developed in Europe in the late 1700s and early 1800s as a reaction to industrialization |
| realism | artistic style portraying everyday life that developed in Europe during the mid-1800s |
| impressionist | artistic style that developed in Europe in the late 1800s and tried to show the natural appearance of objects with dabs or strokes of color |
| welfare state | nation in which the government assumes major responsibility for people's welfare in areas such as health and education |
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