Exams Flashcards
What is a topography map?
A map that shows the elevation of the land.
What is Eurasia?
The content that Europe and Asia are located on.
True or false, the ural mountains are the barrier between Asia and Europe?
True.
Which part of Europe has many mountains?
The southern part
What is the Northern European Plain?
The flat area in the middle of Europe.
What are the abiotic and biotic things in the European plain?
Many trees and rivers
What is latitude?
Imaginary horizontal lines that show position.
What is longitude?
Vertical invisible lines that show position.
What is life like in Southern Europe?
People live on the coast
Warmer
Many fishermen
What naturally protects the southern part of Europe?
The Alps.
What was life like in the Northern part of Europe?
People lived further from the sea.
They used numerous rivers to get around and to reach the seas
Many towns developed on Rivers an example is Paris
There was many flat field for farming.
What was bad about living in the northern part of Europe?
There was not good protection because there were no mountains and they were frequently invaded.
What are the 3 reasons Christianity spread through the Roman empire?
Paul wrote epistles, Roman roads, disciples, and Emperor Constantine.
Who are missionaries?
People that traveled to try and convert others to their faith.
Who is a famous missionary?
Saint Patrick.
Who are monks?
Religious men who lived apart from society.
What did monks do?
Ran schools, copied books, collected writing for ancient Greece and Rome, served as scribes to local rulers, and spent their time in prayer work and meditation.
What did monk rules include?
World included how to eat, dress, pray, and live.
Who did Charlemagne lead?
the franks.
True or false, Charlemagne was not a Christian.
False.
What did Charlemagne do?
Helped the European people and made them realize that they were all European and not just individual tribes.
How did Charlemagne connect the European tribes?
He said that Christianity connect them along with them all being from Europe.
What was Charlemagne crown?
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo the third.
What happened after the fall of Rome with the land?
Various groups claimed they were the rulers of Rome and divided it into many small kingdoms.