Europe Vocabulary

1. Money used for exchange.
7. The monetary unit of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland).
8. THe basic monetary unit of most European countries.
10. A system in which privately owned businesses create goods and services; also called market economy or capitalism.
11. Added cost to goods and services by the government (a tax on goods).
12. A system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and supporting structures used to carry water long distances.
14. Large churches built during the Medieval and Renaissance periods for Christians to worship in, with special architecture and stained glass windows.
15. The movement of population into cities and away from rural areas.
17. The art of designing and constructing buildings.
20. Groups of workers who fight for better wages, reasonable hours, and safer working conditions.
21. The period between 1300 and 1500 where culture and arts flourished; "rebirth"

2. The movement in the 1500s to reform Christianity.
3. An organization of 27 European countries formed to unite the countries economically, politically, socially, and increase trade and security between countries.
4. A new era that includes: factories, people working labor jobs, assembly lines, and crowded cities.
5. The process of changing an economy to rely on manufacturing and less on agriculture.
6. The combination of Britain and Exit used to describe the leaving of Great Britain from the European Union in January 2020.
9. Trade with other companies of other countries without tariffs.
12. The practice of growing crops and/or raising animals.
13. Machines, children working in factories, and lines of people working assembly lines.
16. The monotheistic religion practiced by Christians in churches, where Jesus is God's son and the savior and the Bible is the sacred text.
18. Related to the area of land outside the city- usually an area used for agriculture.
19. A country that remains politically independent from others.