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| France: religion, art, fashion, Rhine River |
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almost 90% is Roman Catholic
cooking is considered an art
world leader in fashion
Rhine River is busiest waterway in Europe |
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| France Industry: industry, raw materials, 2 major cities |
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center for industry:
steel mills, textile factories, chemical plant
Raw material come over to be turned into a finished product
major cities:
Paris and Lille |
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| France Farming: grapes, cheese, produced products |
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grapes flourish b/c of warmer climate and dry soil
246 varieties of cheese
wine, cheese, wheat, milk and butter are some products that are produced |
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| Germany: hard working, education, east germans |
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industrious, thrifty, hard working
classical education b/ of history in art and music
fear east germans being considered second class after the berlin wall |
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| Germany Cont: urban areas, population, religion, area (how big) |
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2/3 live in urban areas
population 81 million
major religions are protestant and catholic
slightly smaller than montana |
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| Germany Economy: exports, rank in economy, #producer on cars, most important road, car company and year |
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major exports of cars steel aluminum and TVs
rank in the top 5 economy in world
3rd largest producer of cars in teh world
autobahn
daimler and benz 1880`s |
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| after charlemagns death germany broke into parts, protestant formation divided them more, prussia tried to unify them in 1700 |
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| spent lots of money rebuilding after WWI, then depression hit germany, hitlar and nazi take over, after WWII become two countries (east and west), october 3 1990 east and west germany were reunited |
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| benelux countries: population, polder/windmills, economic activity in luxemburg |
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population 26 million,
use windmills to reclaim land for the seas (polder),
luxemburg has highest standard of living and thier economic activity is dominated by steel production |
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| Benelus Language: belgium languages |
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belgium 30% speak french (called Walloons),
55% speak flemish, like dutch |
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| switzerland and austria: both countries are |
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| Switzerland Economy: banking, high quility tools |
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banking-zurich
high quility tools:
- measuring and cutting tools
- microscopes
- watches
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| Austria: uses switzerland, economy after WWI |
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uses switzerland as a model to rebuild thir economy
after WWI, economy suffered |
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| Who influenced of education is austria |
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| sea is used as a passport to the rest of the world |
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| Spain Conflicts: Basques, Catalans |
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Basques- want independence for their region, inhabit rich areas of spain
Catalans- demand greater use of their language which is a mixture of french and spanish |
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| Italy: terrain farms, north italy, south, important person??? |
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mauntainous terrain makes farming difficult,
northern italy is industrious,
southern is economically deprived,
Caesar augustus |
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great period for art and learning,
michelangelo and other famous italian painters made this time period famous,
spreads from italy throughout europe |
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| the colosseum: seating, entrances, symbol |
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seats 50,000
80 entrances, easy to leave and arrive
symbol of roman empire |
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| greece: birth place, invasion |
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birth place of democracy
seas used for trade but also makes this area valunerable for invasion |
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| mediterranean climate: italy, greece |
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italy has mountains and hills and enjoys sunny summers and rainy winters
greece has 2000 islands hot summers, rainy winters |
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| Greece and Italy economies: farming methods, south, tourist |
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farming methods are outdated
people in south italy are moving north
southern italy is a tourist industry cause of ruins |
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| poland nation vs. state: religion, WWI + Nazi occupation |
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95 out of every 100 are roman caholic
before WWII it used to be a very multiethnic nation but Nazi occupation and Soviet control changed that |
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| Holocaust/nazi occupation: holocaust def, ghettos, killed in holocasut |
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Holocasut- greek means fire that burn something completly
forced into ghettos
6 million poles were killed and half of them were jews
in all of europe more than 6 million jews were massacred by nazis |
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| used to have collective farms b/c of the former rule of communism |
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| basically different little "patches" of religions |
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| united kingdom industrial revolution econmy: britiain how earn wealth |
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| britiain earned wealth from trade combied with the countries aboundant reserves of coal and iron to fuel the industrial revolution |
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| united kingdom government: |
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joined engalnd and france
cut ravel time to 6 hours to half
150 feet below |
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| Ireland conflict: religious conflict, potato famine, cultral identities |
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| religious conflict, in 1801 great britian annexed ireland fto its territory, b/c of potato famine many came to america, scotland and wales both have been able to retain their cultural identities |
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| have a long history of mining, early as 250 A.D., mined alot of materials |
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| glens, celts, bagpipes, heather, loch ness monster |
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| neutrality: peaceful solutions |
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| denmark and sweden promote peaceful solutions |
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| Denmark and Netherlands Economy: land use for farming both countireis |
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denmark uses 60% of thier land for farming, produce 3x the amount they need for there people,
Netherlands exports 2/3 of teh world fresh cut plants, flowers, bulbs |
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| northwest europe (3 religions) |
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| protestant, east and south europe are orthodox, rest of country is roman catholic |
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