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What is Ukraine?
The largest country by area in Europe.
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What is Von Thunen's Model?
Based on concentric land-use rings surrounding a marketplace.
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What is the German Autobahn?
Widely known for having no federally mandated speed limit.
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What is coal?
Traditionally, this was the primary energy source for Europe.
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What is London?
The city that reached a million people in the first decade of the 19th century.
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What is devolution?
Transfer of power or authority from a central government to a local government.
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What is reindeer hide?
The Sami people make their homes out of this.
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What is England?
The first cast iron bridge and all-weather road was developed here.
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What is the tertiary sector?
Activities that serve people’s everyday needs and facilitate economic transactions.
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Who are the Greeks?
First to adopt urbanism in Europe.
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What is a Federal State?
Allocates strong power to units of local government within the country.
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What is the Columbian Exchange?
The great exchange of crops, animals, diseases and people from the Americas.
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What is deindustrialization?
The decline or abandonment of industrial activity in a region.
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What is France?
This country gets 75% of its power from nuclear.
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What is a charter?
A governmental decree from an emperor or lesser ruler granting political autonomy to the town.
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What is Unification Nationalism?
Effort to bring together, within a single state, peoples who are thought to share a common culture and history.
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What is
Consisted of threefold system: field agriculture, horticulture, and pasture.
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What is s a Guild?
A professional organization of free artisans skilled in a particular craft.
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What is tourism?
Indirectly responsible for 10% of Europe's GDP.
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What is a mercantile city?
This term best describes European urban centers prior to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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What is the Peace of Westphalia?
Ushered in a period of stability within the German Empire that lasted almost a century.
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What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The domestication of plants and animals.
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What is the Black Triangle?
The greatest concentration of environmental damage in the twentieth century occurred here.
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What is nuclear fusion?
Could supply the world with millions of years of power...if we can make it work.
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What is a river meander site?
A city located inside a loop where the stream turns back upon itself is considered located here.
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