Vocab: Europe

1. Europe: Key Vocabulary

4. Landlocked
• Land (country) surrounded by
land on all sides.

5. Navigable
• able to be sailed on by ships or boats

6. Classical
Referring to the civilizations of ancient Greece
and Rome

7. City-state
Independent political unit that
includes a city and surrounding area

8. Democracy
Form of limited government in which power rests
with the people, and all citizens share in running
the government

9. Democracy Explained…
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jgWxk
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10. Republic
Government in which people choose their leaders

11. Leaders in Europe today…

12. Emperor
All-powerful leader

13. Pope
Head of the Roman Catholic Church

14. How Powerful Is The Vatican?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1Rg0V
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15. Feudalism
Political and social system in which kings gave land to
nobles in exchange for nobles’ promise to serve them

16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7CanyzhZg

17. Nation-state
Country formed of people who share a common
culture and history

18. Revolution
Sweeping change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarUnVpo

19. Holocaust
• Destruction or slaughter on a
mass scale
• The mass murder of Jews under the German
Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. More
than 6 million European Jews, as well as
members of other persecuted groups, such as
gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at
concentration camps such as Auschwitz.

20. Communism
• Economic and social system in which all
property and resources are collectively owned
by a classless society and not by individual
citizens.

21. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o93NT6b
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22. Ethnic Group
Population made up of people who
share a common cultural background
or descent

23. Welfare State
• When the government accepts to
protect the health and well-being of
its citizens, especially those in
financial or social need.

24. Fertility Rate
• Births per 1000 women, categorized
according to a specific composition
of mothers in the population.

26. Urbanization
• Population shift from rural to
city areas

27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKnAJCSGSdk

28. Secular
• Having to do with Worldly rather
than Religious matters

30. Constitutional Monarchy
• Form of government in which a monarch acts
as head of state within the parameters of a
constitution.

31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agGQgR981AY

32. Parliamentary Democracy
• Form of government in which the party with
the greatest representation in the parliament
forms the government, its leader becomes
prime minister.

33. Productivity
• Measure of how much work a person does in
a specific amount of time.

34. Geothermal Energy
• Heat energy generated and stored in the Earth

35. Autonomy
• a self-governing country or region

36. Subsidy
• Money that is paid by a
government to keep the price of
a product low or to help a
business to continue to function.

37. Command Economy
• Economy where production, investment, &
prices are determined centrally by the
government.

38. Market Economy
• Economy where the rules of Supply &
Demand are determined by the country's
individual citizens and businesses.

40. Ethnic Cleansing
• Systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious
groups from a given territory