Vocab #13 Western/Southern/Eastern Europe pgs

Guest Worker  Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens

Crusades  A series of brutal religious wars fought by Europeans to win control of Palestine – the birthplace of Christianity – from Muslim rule.

Reparations  Payment for damages; specifically, what Germany was forced to re-pay to England and France at the end of World War I.

The Holocaust  The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews by Nazi Germany.

Realism  An artistic movement that grew out of Western Europe which focused on accurately depicting the details of everyday life.

Impressionist  An artistic movement - which developed from a group of French painters – that focused on the outdoors and capturing immediate experiences or “impressions” of the natural world.

City-State  In Ancient Greece, these were independent, separate communities that were linked by the Greek language and culture.

Renaissance  Europe’s period of artistic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300’s in Italy

Balkinization  A term arising from the destruction of the country formally known as Yugoslavia, it is the division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other.

Ethnic Cleansing  During the fracturing of Yugoslavia, the policy of Serbian leaders to expel or kill rival ethnic groups in nearby areas.