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Test 13 - Other Countries of Western Europe
Chapter 14
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History
5th Grade
11/21/2011

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"Land of the Midnight Sun"
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Norway
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A famous French landmark
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Eiffel Tower
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A great scientist
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Galileo
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Adolf Hitler's desire to conquer led to
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World War II
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Europe's most important inland waterway
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Rhine
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First European to travel all the way across Asia
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Marco Polo
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Italian dictator and leader of the Fascists
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Mussolini
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Italian painter of Mona Lisa
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Italian sculptor of David and Moses
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Michelangelo
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Mainland Europe's highest active volcano
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Mt. Vesuvius
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One of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time
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Albert Einstein
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Temporary snow-blocked shelters that the Inuints sometimes live in
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igloos
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The "Land of Fire and Ice"
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Iceland
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The French emperor who wanted to conquer all of the world
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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The German city that was divided after World War II
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Berlin
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The Strait of Gibraltar separates
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the Iberian Peninsual from Africa
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The World War II hero who became president of the Fifth Republic
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Charles de Gaulle
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The animal that matadors in Spain fight
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bulls
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The capital of France
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Paris
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The capital of Germany
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Berlin
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The capital of Norway
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Oslo
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The capital of Spain
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Madrid
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The captal city of Italy
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Rome
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The city with the famous "leaning tower"
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Pisa
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The country on the Jutland Peninsula
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Denmark
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The country that was reunited in the spring of 1990
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Germany
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The first man to sail around the world
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Magellan
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The highest peak in France
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Mont Blanc
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The huge swamp in southern Spain
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The Tidelands
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The island at the toe of Italy's boot
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Sicily
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The leader of the National Socialist Party in Germany
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Adolf Hitler
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The leader of the Protestant Reformation in France
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John Calvin
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The long, narrow inlets of sea with high, rocky banks
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fjords
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The most famous writer from Denmark
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Hans Christian Andersen
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The peninsula where Spain and Portugal are located
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Iberian Peninsula
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The regions north of the Arctic Circle in the Frigid Zone
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Tundra regions
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The scientist who taught the world how to protect against germs
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Louis Pasteur
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The world's largest island, which is owneds by Denmark
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Greenland
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Three famous German musicians
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Bach
Handel
Beethoven
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What Germany is often called
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the "Land of the Reformation"
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What Italy is often called
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The "Home of the Renaissance"
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What separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe
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Pyrenees Mountains
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Young peasant girl who led the French army to victory, but was later captured and burned at the stake
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Joan of Arc
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