Europe
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maceofspades710 on May 25, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Middle Ages | period between ancient and modern times |
| Apennine | this peninsula forms Italy |
| Great Britain and Ireland | the British Isles is made up of these two islands |
| Avalanche | mass of ice, snow, or rock that slides down a mountainside |
| Mistral | strong wind from the Alps |
| Christianity | primary religion in Europe |
| Communism | these governments controlled most of Eastern Europe followind WWI |
| England | country where a traveler would be able to visit Big Ben and a giant ferris wheel |
| Fjords | long, narrow, steep-sided inlets, many times made of ice |
| Chaparral | shrubs and short trees |
| Sirocco | a hot wind from the Libyan deserts of North Africa |
| Dialects | local forms of language |
| Permafrost | frozen ground found primarily in tundra and subarctic climate regions |
| Spain | located on the Iberian peninsula |
| Cold War | tension between communist and capitalist countries |
| Romanticism | artistic style that shows feeling and emotions |
| Meltwater | the result of melting snow and ice |
| Ethnic Cleansing | a policy where one group expels another rival group from a certain area |
| Crusades | a series of religious wars to win Palestine from Muslim rule |
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