Chapter 14, Section 1
Outline
Setting up the Notes
• Question on
the left
• Answer on the
right
Chapter #, Section # Outline
Question 1
The answer to question 1 is
Blah, blah, blah, double
blah…….. ……
Europe’s Geography
• Large Peninsula
– Water on three
sides
– Atlantic
– Meditteranean
– North Sea
• British Isles
– England
– Ireland
– Scottland
Q1 – Two Parts
• What shape is Europe?
• What Oceans surround it?
Europe’s Topography
• Mountains
– Alps
– Pyrenees
– Natural Borders
and Barriers
Q2 – Mountains
• Which mountains served as protection
Northern European Plain
• Northern part of
Europe
• Thick Forests
• Rich Farmland
Q3 – Northern European Plain
• Why was the Northern European Plain
Important?
Europe’s Waterways
• Flow from Mountains
to plains
• Highways for Trade
• Water for Farmland
• Rich Soil
• Danube in East
• Rhine in North
Rhine
Danube
Q4 – Waterways
• Three reasons rivers are important
Rhine
Danube
People of Europe
• 100 AD
– Romans occupied
Europe
• 300AD
– Germanic tribes
(Burgundians)
began to migrate
• Angles, Saxons,
Jutes
– Crossed North Sea
– Settled British Isles
Q5 – People of Europe
• Which people began to settle Europe?
Middle Ages
• 500AD – 1500AD
Europe
• Germanic Tribes
settling
• Collapse of Roman
Empire (500AD)
• Beginning of
Modern Age
(1500AD)
• Medieval – related
to Middle Ages
Q6 – Middle Ages
• Why called the Middle Ages?