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04/20/2011

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Gulf stream and North Atlantic Drift
Definition
two tropical ocean currents carry warm water across the Atlantic to Europe
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Europe Sub Regions
Definition
European core, northern europe, southern europe, Eastern Europe
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European Core
Definition
The UK, Ireland, France, the benelux states,switzerland, Austria, and Germany
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Northern Europe
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Denmark, iceland, norway, sweden, and finland,
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southern europe
Definition
Portugal, spain, italy, greece, malta and cyprus
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eastern europe
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the balkan states, baltic state, czech, and slovak republics, romania, and bulgaria
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European Plain
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Extends from the french-spanish border east into russia north into scandinavia
Contains most of europe's arable land and several mineral deposits
Europs larger cities also lie on this plane.
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predominiatly hilly
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southern europe
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the Alps
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The collision of the african and european tectonic plates created these
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IS english a german language
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true
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What is historical ancestor of spanish? Italian?
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Latin
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colonialism
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created the greatest transfer of wealth in human history
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mercantilism
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allowed europeans to generate large amounts of weatlh
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created the european union
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maastricht treaty of 1993
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european communities pillar
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required coordination of social environmental and economic policies
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schengen agreement of 1985
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opened the borders between eec states
removed border controls for european citizens traveling between european states
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european economic community in 1957
Definition
grew out of the ecse hoped to create a supranational institution that would rebuild european econimies and make war in europe impossible. PRevent war and encourage industrial growth
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