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What is the land hemisphere?
Europe has been described as being at the heart of this.
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What is the Danube?
The longest river in Europe.
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What is Ireland?
Country with the highest birthrate.
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What is Indo-European?
The main language family in Europe.
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What is Volkswagen?
The largest company in Europe.
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What is othering?
Defining Europe in opposition to other areas.
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What is Mount Etna?
The most active volcano in Europe.
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What is France?
The second most populated country in Europe.
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What is Catholicism and Protestantism?
The two main branches of Christianity.
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What is San Marino?
The oldest independent state.
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What is the Caspian Sea?
Ancient geographers erroneously linked this to the open ocean.
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What is the Black Sea?
Body of water that is stagnate below 478 feet.
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What is a continuous settlement?
When all habitations lie no more than 5 km from others in at least six different directions.
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Who is Constantine?
Roman emperor who issued an edict of toleration for Christianity.
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What is the Czech Republic?
The country with the most castles.
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What is language, religion, and race?
Three main cultural traits used to define Europe.
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What is a polder landscape?
An area of low land reclaimed form a body of water by building dikes and draining water.
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What is the Medieval Warm Period?
Brought milder conditions between the ninth and twelfth centuries.
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What is Germanic?
English is apart of this language subfamily.
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What is Monaco?
Country with the highest life-expectancy.
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What are socioeconomic characteristics?
A well educated population, a healthy population, and an urbanized population all describe these characteristics of Europe.
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What is a Vik?
A patch of flat, unflooded land.
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What is external migration?
Main form of migration from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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What is Slavic?
Polish is apart of this language subfamily.
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What is Austria?
Country with the oldest zoo in the world.
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