European Vocabulary

a group that shares common cultural traits, such as language

• family

• ethnicity

• nation

• town

an extreme devotion to a country characterized by a lack of questioning of state authority

• nationalism

• patriot

• liberal

• conservative

adopting new cultural practices, generally from a dominate culture group

• standard of living

• movement

• immigration

• assimilation

a collection of multiple states that make up a larger group that goes beyond national boundaries

• multinational

• coalition

• treaty

• supranational organization

an area of land that includes lines of transportation, like railroads, highways, canals

• infrastructure

• transportation corridor

• roads

• agriculture

peninsula

• a piece of land that is surrounded by water

• a low space between two mountains

• a high flat plain

• a piece of land that is connected to a mainland and is surrounded on three sides by water

refers to the wealth and purchasing power of a particular group

• debt

• comfort level

• standard of living

• point of view

Literacy

• the ability to read and write

• public speaking

• editing books

• the ability to sing

conditions needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor, and capital

• factors of production

• industrial

• means of labor

• agricultural

large man-made structures generally created for the public to remember an event or individual

• monumental architecture

• pyramids

• cities

• industrial buildings